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F/Sgt George Alfred Badge Taverner

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F/Sgt George Alfred Badge Taverner Veteran

Birth
Yankalilla, District Council of Yankalilla, South Australia, Australia
Death
25 Jul 1944 (aged 21)
Strasbourg, Departement du Bas-Rhin, Alsace, France
Burial
Cronenbourg, Departement du Bas-Rhin, Alsace, France Add to Map
Plot
L. 9. Coll. grave 5-1 1.
Memorial ID
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Flight Sergeant Royal Australian Air Force 429835 (Air Gunner).
Posting on Death:75 (NZ) Squadron, Mepal, Cambridgeshire.
Casualty - Repatriation; Aircraft - Lancaster HK 568; Place - Strasbourg, France; Date - 25 July 1944.
Shot down by a Night Fighter Into the Robertsau Forest on the Northern Outskirts of Strasbourg during a raid on Stuttgart.
He is commemorated on the Roll of Honour in Yankalilla SA, also his name is located at panel 131 in the Commemorative Area at the Australian War Memorial.
Son of George Alfred and Winifred Bessie Taverner, of Torrens Vale, South Australia.
Flight Sergeant Royal Australian Air Force 429835 (Air Gunner).
Posting on Death:75 (NZ) Squadron, Mepal, Cambridgeshire.
Casualty - Repatriation; Aircraft - Lancaster HK 568; Place - Strasbourg, France; Date - 25 July 1944.
Shot down by a Night Fighter Into the Robertsau Forest on the Northern Outskirts of Strasbourg during a raid on Stuttgart.
He is commemorated on the Roll of Honour in Yankalilla SA, also his name is located at panel 131 in the Commemorative Area at the Australian War Memorial.
Son of George Alfred and Winifred Bessie Taverner, of Torrens Vale, South Australia.

Inscription

DUTY NOBLY DONE.
FRAGRANT MEMORIES.
LONGED FOR ALWAYS


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