Sergeant William BADGER 416375
Royal Australian Air Force
18 (Pilots) Advanced Flying R.A.F.
Died (accidental) 15-1-1943 aged 26years
Son of William Josiah & Dorcas May Badger
Husband of Isobel Carr Badger, Glenelg, South Australia.
Royal Australian Air Force
18 (Pilots) Advanced Flying R.A.F.
Died (accidental) 15-1-1943 aged 26years
Son of William Josiah & Dorcas May Badger
Husband of Isobel Carr Badger, Glenelg, South Australia.
Studio portrait of 416375 Sergeant (Sgt) William Badger RAAF, 18 (Pilots) Advanced Flying Unit. Sgt Badger enlisted on 24 May 1941 and was attached to the Royal Air Force. On 15 January 1943, Sgt Badger was one of two crew of an Oxford Bomber (serial number BG168) fatally injured in an aircraft collision during day/night flying and landing exercises at Church Lawford airfield near Rugby, England. The incident occurred when Sgt Badger's aircraft collided with Oxford EP809 during its landing approach, sending both aircraft and crews to the ground. The crew of aircraft serial number EP809 were seriously injured. Sgt Badger and RCAF Pupil Pilot R J Haag were both killed.
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Location: Section A, Grave 6
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