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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
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