LEST WE FORGET
Pilot Officer Geoffrey Paul WITTS
Service No: 424252
Born: Bathurst NSW, 1 September 1923
Enlisted in the RAAF: 15 August 1942
Unit: No. 2 Personnel Depot, Moore Park NSW
Died: Motor Vehicle Accident, Penrith NSW, 26 August 1945, Aged 21 Years
Buried: Penrith General Cemetery NSW
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Elmo John and Catherine Witts, of Rose Bay
Roll of Honour: Penrith NSW
Remembered: Panel 115, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
Remembered: Commonwealth Bank of Australia Honour Rolls, Sydney NSW
Brother of Leading Aircraftman John Witts (411569)
On 26 August 1945, Pilot Officer Witts, a Wireless Air Gunner, was killed in a car accident on the Great Western Road at Penrith.
References:
Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour On-Line Records (RAAF Casualty Information compiled by Alan Storr (409804))
Commonwealth War Graves Commission On-Line Records
Department of Veterans’ Affairs On-Line WWII Nominal Roll
National Archives of Australia On-Line Record A705, 166/43/1598
Register of War Memorials in New South Wales On-Line