LEST WE FORGET
Flying Officer Donald Peter BRADSHAW
Service No: 431472
Born: Killara NSW, 30 September 1924
Enlisted in the RAAF: 6 July 1943 (at Melbourne VIC)
Unit: No. 10 Elementary Flying Training School, Temora NSW
Died: Aircraft Accident (No. 10 Elementary Flying Training School Tiger Moth aircraft A17-696), near Temora, 3 March 1945, Aged 20 Years
Buried: Temora General Cemetery, NSW
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Norman Quintus Bradshaw and Madge King Bradshaw, of South Yarra, Victoria
Roll of Honour: Unknown
Remembered: Panel 115, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
At 0715 hours on 3 March 1945, Tiger Moth A17-696 took off on a non-operational training flight and crashed at 0750 hours two miles west of the Temora aerodrome and the crew was killed.
The crew members of A17-696 were:
Flying Officer Donald Peter Bradshaw (431472) (Instructor Pilot)
Leading Aircraftman Ronald Swift (449704) (Trainee Dual Pilot)
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, 166/6/980; A9845, 81