Collection relating to the service of 401265 Pilot Officer Fergus Alister Allan

Accession Number AWM2019.1052.4
Collection type Photograph
Object type Print
Maker Unknown
Place made Kenya: Nakuru, Nakuru North Cemetery
Date made c 1989
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright Item copyright: © Australian War Memorial
Creative Commons License This item is licensed under CC BY-NC
Description

Family members visit the grave of 401265 Pilot Officer (PO) Fergus Alister Allan. PO Allan enlisted to the Royal Australian Air Force on 5 January 1941. He trained as an air observer in South Australia before he went on to do operational training at 70 Operational Training Unit RAF, in Nakuru, Kenya. On 23 January 1942, Pilot Officer Allan was killed in a training accident, alongside 407675 Sergeant Garnet Allenby Hawkins RAAF and 407147 Sergeant George Owen Emery. He is buried at Nakuru North Cemetery, Kenya.

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