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W.O. Arthur Henry Biltoft

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W.O. Arthur Henry Biltoft Veteran

Birth
Mackay, Mackay Region, Queensland, Australia
Death
7 May 1944 (aged 25)
Saint-Remy-du-Plain, Departement d'Ille-et-Vilaine, Bretagne, France
Burial
Bayeux, Departement du Calvados, Basse-Normandie, France Add to Map
Plot
Coll. grave XXIX. H. 21-26.
Memorial ID
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Royal Australian Air Force Warrant Officer 414192 (Navigator)
Posting on Death: 576 Squadron, Elsham Wolds, Lincolnshire.
Casualty - Repatriation; Aircraft - Lancaster ND783; Place - Le Mans, France; Date - 7 May 1944.
Shot down by a night fighter at St Remy-Du-Plain Near Romazy during a raid on an Ammunition Dump at Aubigne, 2 crew survived, 1 evaded capture.
The crew of Lancaster ND783 were;
JACKSON, Arthur Reginald - (Flight ) - 429953* RAAF
BILTOFT, Arthur Henry – (Warrant Officer) – 414192* RAAF
FORD, Joseph Arthur– (Flight Sergeant) – 410968 (Air Bomber) Survived & evaded capture.
Discharged from the RAAF: 14 February 1946.
See Cenotaph here Cenotaph here in NSW Garden of Remembrance.
MCLEOD, John Wilbert – (Flight Sergeant) – 418296* (Air Gunner)
SHEARER, James Maxwell – (Flight Lieutenant) – 415721 RNZAF
IVELAW-CHAPMAN V R – (Air Commodore) – 04073 RAF
DREW, Corbett N G – (Sergeant) – 912475 * RAF
FOX, Charles V – (Sergeant) – 1202748 # RAF

He is commemorated on the Roll of Honour in Sarina Qld, also his name is located at panel 119 in the Commemorative Area at the Australian War Memorial .
Family
Son of Arthur and Josephine Tate Biltoft, of Sarina, Queensland, Australia.
Brother of Flying Officer Tom Tate Biltoft 404525
Royal Australian Air Force Warrant Officer 414192 (Navigator)
Posting on Death: 576 Squadron, Elsham Wolds, Lincolnshire.
Casualty - Repatriation; Aircraft - Lancaster ND783; Place - Le Mans, France; Date - 7 May 1944.
Shot down by a night fighter at St Remy-Du-Plain Near Romazy during a raid on an Ammunition Dump at Aubigne, 2 crew survived, 1 evaded capture.
The crew of Lancaster ND783 were;
JACKSON, Arthur Reginald - (Flight ) - 429953* RAAF
BILTOFT, Arthur Henry – (Warrant Officer) – 414192* RAAF
FORD, Joseph Arthur– (Flight Sergeant) – 410968 (Air Bomber) Survived & evaded capture.
Discharged from the RAAF: 14 February 1946.
See Cenotaph here Cenotaph here in NSW Garden of Remembrance.
MCLEOD, John Wilbert – (Flight Sergeant) – 418296* (Air Gunner)
SHEARER, James Maxwell – (Flight Lieutenant) – 415721 RNZAF
IVELAW-CHAPMAN V R – (Air Commodore) – 04073 RAF
DREW, Corbett N G – (Sergeant) – 912475 * RAF
FOX, Charles V – (Sergeant) – 1202748 # RAF

He is commemorated on the Roll of Honour in Sarina Qld, also his name is located at panel 119 in the Commemorative Area at the Australian War Memorial .
Family
Son of Arthur and Josephine Tate Biltoft, of Sarina, Queensland, Australia.
Brother of Flying Officer Tom Tate Biltoft 404525

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