LEST WE FORGET
Flight Sergeant Geoffrey Cook SWINBOURNE
Service No: 432593
Born: Strathfield NSW, 9 August 1924
Enlisted in the RAAF: 2 January 1943
Unit: RAF Station Fayid, Egypt
Died: Aircraft Accident (Kittyhawk aircraft ET1022), Egypt, 4 November 1944, Aged 20 Years
Buried: Fayid War Cemetery, Egypt
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Edward Lyttelton Swinbourne and Laura Florence Swinbourne, of Strathfield, New South Wales, Australia
Roll of Honour: Strathfield NSW
Remembered: Panel 131, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
Remembered: Strathfield World War II Roll of Honour, Strathfield NSW
On 4 November 1944 Flight Sergeant Swinbourne was authorised to carry out aerobatics above 10,000 feet in Kittyhawk ET1022. When the aircraft was overdue a search was carried out. The aircraft was found to have dived or spun into the ground and Flight Sergeant Swinbourne had been killed. The aircraft had crashed at 1330 hours some 5 to 7 miles from RAF Station Abu Seuir, Egypt.
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, 166/38/752
Register of War Memorials in New South Wales On-Line