LEST WE FORGET
Pilot Officer Thorburn Harcourt MacGOWAN
Service No: 435154
Born: Melbourne VIC, 12 June 1923
Enlisted in the RAAF: 6 April 1943
Unit: No. 2 Operational Training Unit
Died: Aircraft Accident (No. 2 Operational Training Unit Kittyhawk aircraft A29-153), near Mildura, 5 October 1944, Aged 21 Years
Buried: Mildura Public Cemetery, Victoria
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Leslie Harcourt Macgowan and Beatrice Aimee Macgowan, of Caulfield
Roll of Honour: Caulfield VIC
Remembered: Panel 112, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
While carrying out a Line Astern chase on 5 October 1944, Kittyhawk A29-153 flown by Pilot Officer MacGowan dived from 6,000 feet and crashed one mile south east of the Mildura aerodrome at 1035 hours 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, 166/26/608; A9845, 139