LEST WE FORGET
Flight Sergeant Noel Leslie GORDON
Service No: 408839
Born: Geelong VIC, 22 December 1916
Enlisted in the RAAF: 20 June 1941
Unit: RAF Station Maison Blanche
Died: Aircraft Accident (Spitfire aircraft EN355), Algeria, 6 April 1943, Aged 26 Years
Buried: El Alia Cemetery, Algeria
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Alfred Colston Gordon and Jessie May Gordon, of West Geelong, Victoria, Australia
Roll of Honour: Unknown
Remembered: Panel 122, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
On a ferry transit flight on 6 April 1943, just after take-off at 1100 hours Spitfire EN355 crashed half a mile west of the Maison Blanche aerodrome, Algiers, killing Flight Sergeant Gordon.
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, 166/16/56