LEST WE FORGET
Flight Sergeant John Walter Louis UNDERHILL
Service No: 414611
Born: Brisbane QLD, 27 December 1919
Enlisted in the RAAF: 12 October 1941
Unit: No. 61 Operational Training Unit (RAF)
Died: Aircraft Accident (No. 61 Operational Training Unit Spitfire aircraft N3225), Wales, 25 July 1943, Aged 3 Years
Buried: Chester (Blacon) Cemetery, Cheshire
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Walter Robert and Margaret Frances Underhill, of Indooroopilly, Queensland, Australia.
Roll of Honour: Brisbane QLD
Remembered: Panel 131, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
At 1520 hours on 25 July 1943, Spitfire N3225 flown by Flight Sergeant Underhill crashed when it struck the ground at high speed near Corwen, North Wales, about 15 miles south west of Chester and he was killed.
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, 166/41/6