LEST WE FORGET
Corporal Geoffrey Russell CARY
Service No: 18051
Born: Urana NSW, 22 August 1916
Enlisted in the RAAF: 19 August 1940
Unit: No. 6 Squadron
Died: Illness, Milne Bay, PNG, 14 December 1943, Aged 27 Years
Buried: Port Moresby (Bomana) War Cemetery PNG
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Charles Henry and Stella Maria Cary; husband of Irene Roma Cary, of Cullivel, New South Wales
Roll of Honour: Urana NSW
Remembered: Panel 99, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
Remembered: Lockhart and District War Memorial, Lockhart NSW
Corporal Cary, a Fitter II Engines, died of Malaria/Nephritis on 14 December 1943. He was admitted to No. 2 Medical Receiving Station on 19 November 1943 with Pyelo Nephritis. During his stay in hospital he contracted malaria and he died on 14 December 1943.
References:
Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour On-Line Records
Commonwealth War Graves Commission On-Line Records
Department of Veterans’ Affairs On-Line WWII Nominal Roll
National Archives of Australia On-Line Record A705, 166/7/271
Register of War Memorials in New South Wales On-Line