LEST WE FORGET

Sergeant Andrew Basil BARTON

Service No: 403304
Born: Sydney NSW, 9 March 1921
Enlisted in the RAAF: 6 January 1941
Unit: No. 1 Operational Training Unit, Bairnsdale VIC
Died: Aircraft Accident (No. 1 Operational Training Unit Beaufort aircraft A9-28), Bass Strait, 12 September 1942, Aged 21 Years
Buried: Unrecovered
CWGC Additional Information: Son of George Page Barton and Antoinette Marie Hubertha Barton of Mosman, New South Wales
Roll of Honour: Sydney NSW
Remembered: Panel 6, Sydney Memorial, Rookwood NSW
Remembered: Panel 112, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
Remembered: University of Sydney World war II Honour Roll, Camperdown NSW

On an operational exercise on 12 September 1942, Beaufort A9-28 went missing in Bass Strait between Bairnsdale and Flinders Island sometime between 0619 and 1419 hours. The crew members of A9-28 were:

Sergeant Andrew Basil Barton (403304) (Pilot)
Sergeant Ronald Allan Cuthill (10693) (Observer)
Sergeant Patrick John Healy (416672) (Wireless Air Gunner)
Sergeant Peter Kimber Pugh (416700) (Wireless Air Gunner)

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, 241
Register of War Memorials in New South Wales On-Line

Bibliography:

Lax, M. (Mark) (editor) Always Ready: a history of RAAF East Sale, RAAF Publications Unit Melbourne VIC, 1993
Wilson, S. (Stewart) Beaufort, Beaufighter and Mosquito in Australian Service, Aerospace Publications Weston Creek ACT 2611, 1990

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