LEST WE FORGET
Leading Aircraftman Ernest Alfred HOBBY
Service No: 140910
Born: Adelaide SA, 1 June 1911
Enlisted in the RAAF: 28 July 1943
Unit: No. 340 Radar Station, Bat Island, Admiralty Islands PNG
Died: Illness, New Guinea, 20 April 1944, Aged 32 Years
Buried: Lae War Cemetery, PNG
CWGC Additional Information: Foster-son of Ernest Alfred and Nora Hobby, of Adelaide, South Australia
Roll of Honour: Adelaide SA
Remembered: Panel 114, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
Remembered: World War II Honour Roll, National War Memorial of SA, North Terrace, Adelaide
On 7 April 1944, Leading Aircraftman Hobby, a Guard, contracted scrub typhus at Bat Island, New Guinea. He was evacuated by flying boat to No. 26 Medical Clearing Station, where he died on 20 April 1944.
References:
Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour On-Line Records
Commonwealth War Graves Commission On-Line Records
Department of Veteran’s Affairs On-Line WWII Nominal Roll
National Archives of Australia On-Line Record A705, 166/18/333