LEST WE FORGET
Flight Sergeant Ross Orlando HUTCHISON
Service No: 408209
Born: Wynyard TAS, 24 August 1922
Enlisted in the RAAF: 25 April 1941
Unit: No. 31 Squadron (RAF)
Died: Illness, India, 31 July 1943, Aged 20 Years
Buried: Maynamati War Cemetery, Bangladesh
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Robert Stephen and Matilda Winifred Hutchison, of Wynyard, Tasmania, Australia
Roll of Honour: Wynyard TAS
Remembered: Panel 124, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
Flight Sergeant Hutchison, a Pilot, died of Malaria in the No. 92 Indian General Hospital, Comilla, on 31 July 1943.
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, 166/18/146