LEST WE FORGET
Sergeant Walter James COX
Service No: 2403
Born: Moonee Ponds VIC, 12 December 1916
Enlisted in the RAAF: 21 September 1936
Unit: No. 12 Squadron
Died: Aircraft Accident (No. 12 Squadron Wirraway aircraft A20-132), Adelaide River NT, 15 March 1941, Aged 24 Years
Buried: Adelaide River War Cemetery NT
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Walter and Anne Winifred Cox; husband of Mary Dorothy Cox, of South Yarra, Victoria
Roll of Honour: Prahran VIC
Remembered: Panel 100, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
On 15 March 1941, A20-132 crashed near the Adelaide River railway station and both crew members were killed. Those crew members were:
Sergeant Walter James Cox (2403) (Observer)
Flying Officer Francis Burton Smith (645) (Pilot)
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, 53/1/983