LEST WE FORGET
Flying Officer Maxwell John COBLEY
Service No: 411122
Born: Sydney NSW, 19 February 1917
Enlisted in the RAAF: 26 April 1941
Unit: No. 7 Squadron
Died: Accident, Lower Portland NSW, 10 February 1943, Aged 25 Years
Buried: Rookwood Necropolis, Sydney NSW
CWGC Additional Information: Son of George Francis and Maud Kathleen Cobley, of Five Dock
Roll of Honour: Five Dock NSW
Remembered: Panel 99, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
Remembered: Five Dock War Memorial, Five Dock NSW
Flying Officer Cobley, an Observer, drowned at Lower Portland on 10 Jury 1943 while he was on leave.
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, 166/8/41
Register of War Memorials in New South Wales On-Line