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P/O William Bowe (Bill) Stubbs Aircraftsman Sgt David Kirk
(1930-32) Ivan Fred Buhler Godfrey (1929-38)
Pilot - No 2 Wireless Operator/Air-gunnery (1920-26) 6 Squadron RAAF
School
David attended Hale School between
No 9 Empire Flight Training
Bill was a boarder from a farming family at Kondinin and School, RAAF 1929 and 1938. Though suffering
attended Hale School between 1930 and 1932. He was an severely from asthma he was in the
outstanding sportsman being in the 1st XI for two years Ivan attended Hale School from 1920 Athletics team and a member of the 1st
and was full forward in the 1st XVIII. XVIII.
to 1926. Upon leaving he joined his
father's music business.
In the middle of 1941 he joined the RAAF and eventually Upon leaving school he trained in a
completed his pilot training at Cunderdin and at He was another who lost his life under Kalgoorlie iron foundry before joining
Geraldton. He was then posted to a flight training school unfortunate circumstances during the the RAAF where he qualified as a
at Forbes in NSW. He was one of the high percentage of course of the war - he in fact died of Wireless Operator/Air Gunner. He was
volunteers who lost his life in a training accident with a inoculation paralysis shortly after his a member of a No. 6 Squadron Hudson
student pilot when wartime procedures were necessarily service had begun. bomber aircraft crew which sank a
hurried and somewhat perfunctory. He was 25 years of Japanese submarine off the New South
age. His wife gave birth to their son sometime after his Placed by the then retiring Deputy Wales coast on 6 June 1942.
death.
Headmaster of Hale School,
Mr Roy Kelley. He was classified Missing in Action near
Placed by Mr Bruce West of East Fremantle. Milne Bay, New Guinea on 25 August
1942 while his squadron aircraft were
operating against Japanese naval
forces active in the waters of the Coral
Sea, between New Guinea and the
mainland of Australia. He was 22 years
of age.
Placed by a friend of the Godfrey
family, Old Haleian Dr Ken Tregonning
(1936-41), a former member of the
Royal Australian Air Force in World
War II
