Flight Lieutenant G.W. MacDonnell Pilot Royal Air Force 16th. January 1944 Age 30 Born at Cairns, North Queensland, Australia. Honour the Brave
Service #101520 - 603 SQUADRON, ROYAL AUSTRALIAN FORCE AIRCRAFT - BEAUFIGHTER LZ138 Flight Lieutenant (Flt Lt) Gordon MacDonnell, 603 Squadron, RAF. A cane inspector from Cairns, Flt Lt MacDonnell travelled to London to join the RAF in October 1940. Flt Lt MacDonnell was recorded as missing in action following an air battle off the coast of Turkey on 16 January 1944. He was later presumed to have died during this incident. His identical twin brother, QX19120 Lieutenant Desmond King MacDonnell, 2/31 Battalion, died of wounds in Papua on the Kokoda Trail on 14 September 1942.
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