LEST WE FORGET
Corporal Reginald Joseph WHIPPLE
Service No: 15202
Born: Orange NSW, 24 May 1908
Enlisted in the RAAF: 13 May 1940
Unit: No. 2 Aircraft Depot, RAAF Station Richmond NSW
Died: Illness, Concord NSW, 8 January 1944, Aged 35 Years
Buried: Sydney War Cemetery, Rookwood NSW
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Francis Looby Whipple and Ada Lily Ellen Whipple, of Chatswood
Roll of Honour: Orange NSW
Remembered: Panel 113, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
On 6 January 1944, Corporal Whipple, a Fitter II Airframe, was admitted to No.3 RAAF Hospital, Concord, dangerously ill from an intestinal obstruction and he died on 8 January 1944.
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, 166/43/483