LEST WE FORGET
Flying Officer Hugh Geoffrey BICKERTON
Service No: 5257
Born: Brisbane QLD, 12 September 1913
Enlisted in the RAAF: 20 November 1939 (at RAAF Station Laverton VIC)
Unit: Goodeneough Island Wireless Telegraph Station PNG
Died: Illness, Heidelberg VIC, 27 August 1944, Aged 30 Years
Buried: Springvale War Cemetery, Melbourne VIC
CWGC Additional Information: Son of James Geoffrey and Emma Isabel Bickerton, of Toorak
Roll of Honour: Malvern VIC
Remembered: Panel 114, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
On 3 June 1944, Flying Officer Bickerton (Administrative and Special Duties) was admitted to No. 6 RAAF Hospital Heidelberg, dangerously ill with infective hepatitis and he died on the 27 August 1944.
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, 166/5/554