LEST WE FORGET
Flying Officer Russell Barton Remington SHETLIFFE
From Australia serving in the Royal Air Force
Service No: 100156 (RAFVR)
Born: 1911, Mosman District NSW
Enlisted in the RAF: Date unavailable
Unit: No. 1 Aircraft Delivery Unit
Died: Illness: 63rd General Hospital, Egypt, 2 January 1944, Aged 32 Years
Buried: Helipolis War Cemetery, Egypt
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Ernest Remington Shetliffe and May Shetliffe, of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; husband of Norma Joyce Shetliffe, of Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia
Roll of Honour: Unknown
Flying Officer Shetliffe was admitted to hospital with Smallpox on 25 December 1943 and died on 2 January 1944.
References:
Commonwealth War Graves Commission On-Line Records
National Archives of Australia On-Line Record A705, 166/37/282
Trove (National Library of Australia): The Sydney Morning Herald, Saturday 8 January 1944