LEST WE FORGET
Flight Sergeant Anthony Herbert MOSS
Service No: 421368
Born: Thursday Island QLD, 29 June 1923
Enlisted in the RAAF: 1 February 1942 (at Sydney NSW)
Unit: RAF Station Abu Sueir
Died: Aircraft Accident (Spitfire aircraft JL242), Egypt, 28 February 1944, Aged 20 Years
Buried: Moascar War Cemetery, Egypt
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Herbert Saville Moss and Dorothy Mabel Evelyn Moss, of Brookvale, New South Wales, Australia
Roll of Honour: Manly NSW
Remembered: Panel 127, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
Remembered: Manly ANZAC War Memorial, Manly NSW
On the 28 February 1944, Spitfire JL242 flown by Flight Sergeant Moss and Spitfire ES336 flown by Flight Sergeant Allan William O’Brien (421028) collided in mid-air and crashed 10 miles south east of Abu Sueir aerodrome and both Pilots were killed.
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, 166/28/252
Register of War Memorials in New South Wales On-Line