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Hugo Throssell Armstrong Dudley Tabor Everett Albert Frank Shapcott (1925)

(1929-32) (1924-29) Frank lived in Crawley. His father was a prominent civil

servant (Head of State Gardens Board) and was directly
Hugo was named after his uncle, Hugo Throssell, a Victoria At Hale, Dudley was in both the 1st XI and 1st XVIII. After responsible for Royal Fresh Water Bay Yacht Club
Cross winner on Gallipoli during the WWI. "Hoogie" lived school he qualified as an accountant and represented the acquiring the Keane Point site on which their premises
in Cottesloe and attended Hale School from 1929 to 1932. state as a cricketer. Before the war he was also a prominent now stand.
member of the Aero Club and upon the outbreak of war
He left school to work in the family motor vehicle business was mobilised as a flying instructor. Eventually he was He was a member of the Commonwealth Air Force prior to
and gained a reputation as a fanatical racing driver. It was a posted to the Central Flying School in England but while the war and upon the outbreak was posted to New Guinea
family joke that he put petrol on his cereal for breakfast. His en-route he test flew several aircraft in Canada and it was as a Squadron Leader on administration duties.
father disapproved so Hoogie merely changed his name while on one of these flights he crashed and was killed on
and went on racing. the 3rd May 1943. He was 31 years of age. Early in 1941 he resigned his commission and re-mustered
the following day to train as a pilot at Cunderdin and
Hugo was to be one of the first to join the RAAF after Placed by his nephew, Mr Godfrey Everett. Geraldton. He was then posted to Ireland for final training
the outbreak of war and after training on Tiger Moths on Wellington torpedo bombers. Upon graduation he was
at Cunderdin he sailed for England and joined No 452 PLAQUE NO 51: transferred to operations in Scotland but was accidentally
Squadron as a Spitfire pilot. Eventually he was promoted killed during a familiarisation flight on the 8th August
to command an English squadron, No 611 and was 1943. He was 29 years of age.
awarded two Distinguished Flying Crosses after scoring 12 Edmund Francis (Ned) Kirwan
confirmed 'kills' and a string of probables. Placed by his sister, Mrs Elaine Connell of Geraldton,
(1922) assisted by Mr Anthony Horn.
On his 150th operation over enemy territory on the 5th
February 1943 he was forced to bale out of his aircraft. It is
thought probable that he hit the tailplane and was fatally Ned was the son of the President of the Legislative Council
injured. He was 25 years of age. of Western Australia, Sir John Kirwan. He attended Hale
School as a boarder from Kalgoorlie from 1922 onward.
Placed by a good friend at school, and also in No.1
Empire Air Training Scheme course in 1940, Mr Selwyn Later, he and his brother John transferred from Hale
Clark (1929-34), himself a fighter pilot and also a worthy School to Downside School in Somerset, England and
recipient of the Distinguished Flying Cross in World War II both boys joined the Royal Air Force after the outbreak
of the war. Ned served with number 540 Squadron Photo
Reconnaissance Squadron and flew in Mosquito aircraft on
more than 50 operations over enemy territory. He was killed
on 11th July 1943 when his aircraft was badly damaged
and he was forced to crash land after making it back to his
Scottish base. He was aged 28 years.

Placed by his cousin, Dr Michael Quinlan.