LEST WE FORGET
Flying Officer Alexander Peter POTTS
Service No: 402094
Born: Leichardt NSW, 6 July 1919
Enlisted in the RAAF: 26 May 1940
Unit: No. 100 Squadron, Goodenough Island PNG
Died: Aircraft Accident: (No. 100 Squadron Beaufort aircraft A9-480), Goodenough Island, 5 March 1944, Aged 24 Years
Buried: Port Moresby (Bomana) War Cemetery, PNG
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Frank Forbes Potts and Beatrice Gertrude Potts, of Taree, New South Wales.
Roll of Honour: Taree NSW
Remembered: Panel 105, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
Remembered: Taree World War II and Post War Memorials, Taree NSW
Beaufort aircraft A9-480 crashed after takeoff at Vivigani Airfield on 5 March 1944 killing all on board. Those on board were:
Corporal Bernard Leo Duggan (63239) (No. 71 Wing) (Cameraman, Supernumerary)
Flying Officer Frederick William Spencer Easton (429240) (Pilot)
Flight Sergeant James Sharpe Hamersley (415140) (Wireless Air Gunner)
Flying Officer Alexander Peter Potts (402094) (Wireless Air Gunner)
Flight Sergeant Geoffrey Leonard Wiblin (419411) (Navigator Bomb Aimer)
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 A9845, 259
Register of War Memorials in New South Wales On-Line
Bibliography:
Graham, B. (Burton) and Frank Smyth, A Nation Grew Wings: The Story of the RAAF Beaufort Squadrons in New Guinea, Winterset House Publishers Melbourne VIC, 1946
Wilson, S. (Stewart) Beaufort, Beaufighter and Mosquito in Australian Service, Aerospace Publications Weston Creek ACT 2611, 1990