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Harbottle Phillip F Grant

TASMANIAN KILLED

Flying Officer Harbottle

Advice was received yesterday of the death in an air accident in Queensland of Flying Officer Philip Francis Grant Harbottle, R.A.A.F., formerly of Hobart.

Flying Officer Harbottle enlisted in the R.A.A.F. in May, 1940, and after completing his training in Canada went to England where he was posted to a fighter squadron. He was engaged extensively on convoy work, and for a time was flying planes which were catapulted from ships at sea.

He was promoted flying officer several months before his return to Australia this year with other .R.A.A.F. men brought back to strengthen the Commonwealth's air defences.

A son of Mrs. Alan Burn, Flying Officer Harbottle was well known in Hobart as an announcer with the Australian Broadcasting Commission, and as an enthusiastic member of the Hobart Repertory Society.

 The Mercury 13 July 1942

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