LEST WE FORGET
Pilot Officer John Dallas CROSSMAN
From Australia serving in the Royal Air Force
Service No: 43283 (RAF)
Born: Date, Location unavailable
Enlisted in the RAF: Date unavailable
Unit: No. 46 Squadron (RAF), RAF Station Stapleford Tawney, Essex
Died: Air Operations: (No. 46 Squadron Hurricane I aircraft V6748), Sussex, 30 September 1940, Age unavailable
Buried: Chalfont St Giles Churchyard, Buckinghamshire
CWGC Additional Information: Son of George Edward and Gladys Allyne Crossman, of New Lambton, New South Wales, Australia
Roll of Honour: Unknown
Remembered: Commemorative Roll, Australian War Memorial, Canberra
Remembered: Battle of Britain Memorial, Westminster Abbey, London UK
Pilot Officer Crossman was an Australian Cadet accepted for training by the RAF who embarked for the UK on 12 August 1939.
On 30 September 1940, Pilot Officer Crossman in Hurricane V6748 was shot down over Sussex while on patrol.
References:
Australian War Memorial Commemorative Roll On-Line Records
Commonwealth War Graves Commission On-Line Records
Franks, Norman L R Royal Air Force Fighter Command Losses of the Second World war Volume 1 Operational Losses: Aircraft and Crews 1939-1941, Midland Publishing Leicester UK, 1997
Newton, Dennis A Few of the Few: Australians and the Battle of Britain, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT 2600, 1990