LEST WE FORGET
Sergeant Mabel Eileen SHANNON
Service No: 95487
Born: Wangaratta VIC, 22 September 1907
Enlisted in the RAAF: 1 May 1942
Unit: No. 1 Wireless Air Gunners School
Died: Illness, Benalla VIC, 31 July 1943, Aged 35 Years
Buried: Benalla War Cemetery VIC
CWGC Additional Information: Daughter of Colonel Herbert James Shannon, DSO VD and Mabel Estella Shannon, of Wangaratta
Roll of Honour: Wangaratta VIC
Remembered: Panel 117, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
On 31 July 1943, Sergeant Shannon, a Drill Instructor, died of an illness at Benalla.
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, 166/37/158