LEST WE FORGET
Flight Sergeant John Leslie GOULTER
Service No: 404905
Born: Stanthorpe QLD, 11 May 1920
Enlisted in the RAAF: 6 December 1940
Unit: No. 10 Air Gunnery School RAF
Died: Aircraft Accident (No. 10 Air Gunnery School Defiant aircraft N3328), Lancashire, 24 October 1942, Aged 22 Years
Buried: Barrow-in-Furness Cemetery, Lancashire
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Howard Langford Goulter and Edith Goulter, of Glen Niven, Queensland, Australia.
Roll of Honour: Stanthorpe QLD
Remembered: Panel 122, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
At approximately 1150 hours on 24 October 1942, Defiant N3328 flown solo by Flight Sergeant Goulter crashed near Barnoldswick while flying through a hailstorm and he was killed.
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, 163/118/512