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Harrison Robert Ronald

Born 7^th Feb 1918 Nurse Reynolds Hospital Wynyard to Ronald Wilberforce and Edith May Harrison (nee Wragg), Sgt Harrison was living and working as a clerk in Queenstown Tasmania when he enlisted in the RAAF.

He was a passenger on a Catalina with 20 Squadron on 17 August 1943 which took off from Bowen on a sea gunnery training flight. Later the plane was making a run across the wave tops when, it is assumed, the wing hit the water and the aircraft crashed into the sea.

Fourteen service personnel were killed in this accident including Sgt Robert Ronald Harrison and another Tasmanian Sgt Leslie George Dalgleish.

Photo Courtesy Robyn Pearce

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