LEST WE FORGET
Leading Aircraftman Percival Arnold Roy McFARLANE
Service No: 9089
Born: Kalgoorlie WA, 21 July 1918
Enlisted in the RAAF: 13 February 1940 (at Adelaide SA)
Unit: No.3 Squadron
Died: Illness, Middle East, 12 March 1941, Aged 22 Years
Buried: Benghazi War Cemetery, Libya
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Howard Irvine McFarlane and Florence Esther Bernice McFarlane, of Torrensville, South Australia
Roll of Honour: Adelaide
Remembered: Panel 98, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
Remembered: World War II Honour Roll, National War Memorial of SA, North Terrace, Adelaide
On 12 March 1941, Leading Aircraftman McFarlane, a Telephone Operator, died of acute toxic
Dysentery.
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 A9301, 9089
Bibliography:
Brown, R. (Russell) Desert Warriors Australian P-40 Pilots at War in the Middle East and North Africa 1941-1943, Banner Books Maryborough QLD 4652, 2000