LEST WE FORGET
Flight Lieutenant Alan Murchison WOODHILL
Service No: 448
Born: Richmond NSW, 8 March 1916
Enlisted in the RAAF: 13 March 1937 (at RAAF Station Richmond NSW)
Unit: No. 2 Service Flying Training School, Wagga Wagga NSW
Died: Aircraft Accident (No. 2 Service Flying Training School Wirraway aircraft A20-220), near Wagga Wagga, 20 June 1941, Aged 25 Years
Buried: Wagga Wagga General Cemetery, NSW
CWGC Additional Information: Son of George Stanley and Stella Woodhill; husband of Nancy Marion Woodhill, of Richmond
Roll of Honour: Richmond NSW
Remembered: Panel 117, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
Remembered: Richmond and District Memorial, Richmond NSW
At about 1000 hours on 20 June 1941, Wirraway A20-220 went out of control in low cloud during a dual cross country training flight and crashed 15 kms west of Wagga Wagga, killing both crew members. Those crew members were:
Leading Aircraftman Walter Osborne Graham (407789) Student Pilot
Flight Lieutenant Alan Murchison Woodhill (448) Instructor
References:
Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour On-Line Records
Commonwealth War Graves Commission On-Line Records
Department of Veteran’s Affairs On-Line WWII Nominal Roll
National Archives of Australia On-Line Record A9845, 109
Register of War Memorials in New South Wales On-Line
Bibliography:
Wilson, S. (Stewart) Wirraway, Boomerang and CA-15 in Australian Service, Aerospace Publications Weston Creek ACT 2611, 1991