CAMDEN DISTRICT ROLL OF HONOUR

CAMDEN REMEMBERS Rupert Frederick Arding (Derick) DOWNES (Sergeant 402660)

Birth: 28 Aug 1919 Camden NSW Father: Rupert Frederick Arding DOWNES (1886-1955) Mother: Katie May Elizabeth Coghill MADDRELL (1886-1976) Occupation: Grazier Enlisted: 18 Sep 1940 Sydney NSW Residence: 1940 'Aston' Brownlow Hill Camden NSW Unit: 1 (Middle East) Training School RAF (On attachment from RAAF 450 Squadron) Death: 7 Oct 1942 Middle East                     Cemetery: British Military Cemetery Kantara West                     Roll of Honour: Soldiers Memorial Macarthur Park Camden NSW                     Relatives: Rupert Frederick Arding Downes, N375810 WWI, WWII (father)                                      Robert John Frederick Downes, NX123597 WWII (cousin)                                      David Frederick Kirk Downes, 4026470 WWII (cousin) Photo courtesy Camden Historical Society (from Joyce Thorn scrapbook) Pilot Sergeant Rupert Frederick Arding (Derick) DOWNES died on 7 October 1942 in an attempted forced landing in a Hurricane aircraft in the Middle East. He was age 23.

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