LEST WE FORGET
Flight Lieutenant John Howard KEARNS
Service No: 400804
Born: Dunolly VIC, 20 April 1909
Enlisted in the RAAF: 8 November 1940
Unit: No. 460 Squadron, RAF Station Binbrook, Lincolnshire
Died: Illness, Yorkshire, 26 January 1943, Aged 33 Years
Buried: Bubwith (All Saints) Churchyard, Selby, Yorkshire
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Howard James Kearns and Mabel Beatrice Kearns; husband of Elizabeth Lyle Kearns, of East Camberwell, Victoria, Australia
Roll of Honour: Ballarat VIC
Remembered: Panel 107, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
Flight Lieutenant Kearns, the Squadron Adjutant, died of an illness in the York Military Hospital on 26 January 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 Veteran’s Affairs On-Line WWII Nominal Roll
National Archives of Australia On-Line Record A705, 166/22/14
Bibliography:
Firkins, P. C. (Peter Charles) (441386) Strike and Return, Westward Ho Publishing City Beach WA, 1985