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Aubyn W.J. Dimmitt Surgeon Cmdr Eric Mortimer Tymms DSC Fl. Off Lynton Bennell Howard L.A.C. George Henry Le Mercier

(1929-32) (1915) Birt (1931-33) (1926-29)

Aubyn attended Hale School HMAS Perth No 4 Secondary Flight Training School, RAAF RAAF
between 1929 and 1932 and
was a prefect in his final year. He Eric was born in Rockhampton, Queensland but was enrolled at Hale School as Lynton Birt attended Hale School between 1931 and 1933 George attended Hale School between 1926 and 1929 as
then attended the University of a ten year old in 1915. His father conducted a medical practice in West Perth. from Subiaco. At School he played cricket and football a boarder from Dwellingup. He was well known as a very
Western Australia and graduated After leaving Hale School in 1924, he moved interstate to study medicine. He and in his reports is described as being an 'above average' good rifle shot.
as an engineer at the end of 1938. began service with the Royal Australian Naval Reserve in 1935. student. After leaving School he worked in the English,
Subsequently he was transferred to Scottish and Australian bank and played on a wing for the He joined the Royal Australian Air Force during the war
Singapore around 1940 and from Eric joined the complement of the cruiser, HMAS Perth in 1940 and was Old Haleians Hockey Club. and travelled to the Eastern States for further training. He
there was seconded into the British subsequently awarded a Distinguished Service Cross for his work during the died on active service at Concord, New South Wales in
Admiralty after the outbreak of Crete campaign in the Mediterranean Sea in 1941. On the outbreak of war he joined the Royal Australian Air April, 1942. He was 26 years of age.
hostilities in the region. Force and eventually qualified as a navigator. He was killed
The Perth returned to the Australian region and Eric was killed when the ship on 9 October 1942 when an Avro Anson aircraft crashed Placed by Hale grandparent, Mr Don Meredith, a pilot
He was evacuated from Singapore in was sunk during the Battle of the Sunda Straits (Indonesia) on 1 March 1942. He at Clackline, near Northam, on a flight from Cunderdin to with the Royal Australian Air Force during World War II.
February 1942 but the ship in which was 37 years of age Pearce air force base. He was 25 years of age.
he was sailing was sunk the next day.
He managed to join other survivors Placed by Mr Arthur Bancroft, a Hale School grandparent, representing the Placed by Haleian, Selwyn Clark DFC (1929-30), a Royal
but after some weeks of swimming HMAS Perth Survivors’ Association. Australian Air Force fighter pilot during World War II.
and canoeing from island to island he
perished on an unknown island in the
South China Sea.

He was 28 years of age.

Placed by his brother,
Mr Richard Dimmitt (1935-40),
assisted by his sons Aubyn and
Simon.

Courtesy:
Australian War Memorial - RCDIG1068959