LEST WE FORGET
Leading Aircraftman Cecil Richard FORD
Service No: 138900
Born: Orange NSW, 1 December 1916
Enlisted in the RAAF: 21 December 1943
Unit: No. 5 Airfield Construction Squadron
Died: Ground Accident, Biak, 22 March 1945, Aged 28 Years
Buried: Lae War Cemetery PNG
CWGC Additional Information: Son of William and Maude Mary Ford; husband of Thelma Lillian Ford, of Orange, New South Wales
Roll of Honour: Orange NSW
Remembered: Panel 114, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
On 22 March 1945, Leading Aircraftman Ford and Leading Aircraftman Payne, a General Hand, died from injuries received in a vehicle accident near the western alert area of Mokmer aerodrome, Biak, when the vehicle in which they were travelling overturned. In the vehicle were:
Leading Aircraftman Arthur Furnell Bolden (60761) (Driver) Injured, Discharged from the RAAF: 17 September 1945
Leading Aircraftman Cecil Richard Ford (138900)
Leading Aircraftman James Geoffrey Payne (138249)
Corporal John Norman Scarsbrook (65343) Injured, Discharged from the RAAF: 20 November 1945
Leading Aircraftman John Phillip Smith (125453) Injured, Discharged from the RAAF: 5 February 1945
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, 166/14/384