LEST WE FORGET
Flight Sergeant Robert Bruce WARDROBE
Service No: 412221
Born: Leeton NSW, 23 May 1919
Enlisted in the RAAF: 22 June 1941
Unit: No. 4 Aircraft Delivery Unit (RAF)
Died: Aircraft Accident (No. 4 Aircraft Delivery Unit Kittyhawk aircraft FL268), Libya, 20 July 1943, Aged 24 Years
Buried: Tripoli War Cemetery, Libya
CWGC Additional Information: Son of George William and Grace Joyce Wardrobe, of Hornsby, New South Wales, Australia
Roll of Honour: Unknown
Remembered: Panel 132, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
At 1325 hours on 20 July 1943, Kittyhawk FL268 flown by Flight Sergeant Wardrobe crashed at Aziza, Libya. The aircraft stalled as it was coming in to land 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, 166/43/262
Bibliography:
Ilbery, P.L.T. (Peter Leslie Thomas) (422957) Hatching an Air Force: 2SFTS, 5SFTS, 1BFTS Uranquinty and Wagga Wagga, Banner Books Maryborough QLD 4650, 2002