LEST WE FORGET
Pilot Officer George Henry BLOM
Service No: 420525
Born: Drummoyne NSW, 29 June 1919
Enlisted in the RAAF: 8 November 1941
Unit: No. 450 Squadron
Died: Ground Accident, near Perugia Italy, 11 September 1944, Aged 25 Years
Buried: Ancona War Cemetery, Italy
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Otto Pieter and Emma Hayward Blom, of Glen Iris, Victoria, Australia
Roll of Honour: Sydney NSW
Remembered: Panel 105, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
At 1500 hours on 11 September 1944, Pilot Officer Blom, a Pilot, died of his injuries received in a collision between RAF and British Army vehicles near Fojano north-west of Perugia.
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, 166/51709