LEST WE FORGET
Flying Officer George Binnie YUILLE
Service No: 411425
Born: Dubbo NSW, 15 November 1916
Enlisted in the RAAF: 28 April 1941
Unit: No. 100 Squadron, Milne Bay PNG
Died: Air Operations: (No. 100 Squadron Beaufort aircraft A9-197), New Guinea, 25 February 1943, Aged 26 Years
Buried: Unrecovered
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Alan Neil Yuille and Violet Marion Wilson Yuille, of Turramurra. New South Wales.
Roll of Honour: Unknown
Remembered: Panel 9, Port Moresby Memorial, PNG
Remembered: Panel 105, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
Remembered: University of Sydney World War II Roll of Honour, Camperdown NSW
Remembered: Knox Grammar School Old Boys’ War memorial, Wahroonga NSW
Remembered: Ku-ring-gai World War II Book of Remembrance, Gordon NSW
Beaufort aircraft A9-197 went missing on operations from Gurney Field on 25 February 1943. The crew members were:
Flying Officer Albert Dudley Chivers (412805) (Navigator Bomb Aimer)
Flying Officer Frederick Thomas Fromm (269689) (Wireless Air Gunner)
Flying Officer Alan Barton Ross (417001) (Wireless Air Gunner)
Flying Officer George Binnie Yuille (411425) (Pilot)
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, 247
Register of War Memorials in New South Wales On-Line
Bibliography:
Graham, B. (Burton) and Frank Smyth, A Nation Grew Wings: The Story of the RAAF Beaufort Squadrons in New Guinea, Winterset House Publishers Melbourne VIC, 1946
Wilson, S. (Stewart) Beaufort, Beaufighter and Mosquito in Australian Service, Aerospace Publications Weston Creek ACT 2611, 1990