LEST WE FORGET
Corporal Albert Barnicot SCHWEITZER
Service No: 43170
Born: Beenleigh QLD, 9 April 1917
Enlisted in the RAAF: 27 June 1941
Unit: No. 16 Stores Unit, Port Moresby
Died: Injuries from a Ground Accident, near Port Moresby PNG, 7 June 1943, Aged 26 Years
Buried: Port Moresby (Bomana) War Cemetery PNG
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Albert Frank and May Rose Jane Schweitzer, of Burleigh Heads, Queensland
Roll of Honour: Burleigh Heads QLD
Remembered: Panel 114, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
On 9 June 1943, Corporal Schweitzer, a Clerk General, died of injuries received in an accident on 7 June 1943 which was caused by the hillside beside the road from Koitaki to Port Moresby collapsing on to a vehicle, causing it to roll over and tumble down an embankment. Corporal Maurice James Evans (25911), a General Hand, died from his injuries on the 7 June 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 Veterans’ Affairs On-Line WWII Nominal Roll
National Archives of Australia On-Line Record A705, 166/37/109