LEST WE FORGET
Leading Aircraftman Francis James Raymond DIMOND
Service No: 64168
Born: Pymble NSW, 24 February 1918
Enlisted in the RAAF: 22 April 1942
Unit: No. 1 Tactical Air Force, Morotai
Died: Burns (form a Ground Accident on 8 August 1945), Morotai, 17 August 1945, Aged 27 Years
Buried: Ambon War Cemetery, Indonesia
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Patrick Francis and Katherine Gertrude Dimond, of Wollstonecraft, New South Wales, Australia
Roll of Honour: Mudgee NSW
Remembered: Panel 97, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
On the 8 August 1945, Leading Aircraftman Dimond, a Telegraphist, was admitted to No. 7 Medical Receiving Station Morotai, seriously ill with burns. Petrol had ignited while he was washing clothes and he later died on 17 August 1945.
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, 166/9/715