LEST WE FORGET
Corporal Milton Robert IFIELD
Service No: 15775
Born: Sans Souci NSW, 21 May 1918
Enlisted in the RAAF: 18 June 1940
Unit: No. 451 Squadron
Died: Illness, Palestine, 25 November 1942, Aged 24 Years
Buried: Khayat Beach War Cemetery, Israel
CWGC Additional Information: Son of John Joseph and Amelia Frances Ifield, of Eastwood, New South Wales, Australia
Roll of Honour: Eastwood NSW
Remembered: Panel 105, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
On 25 November 1942, Corporal Ifield, an Armourer, was admitted to No. 53 General Hospital with meningitis and died later that day.
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, 163/125/85