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FLGOFF Neville Stanley Faulks 420930

Squadron/s79 SQN
Rank On Discharge/Death FAULKS-Neville-Stanley (FLGOFF)
NicknameSleepy
Mustering / SpecialisationPilot
Date of Birth20 Jul 1923
Contributing Author/sCompiled by Vince Conant
2016
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Date of birth - 20 Jul 1923
Place of birth - RYDE NSW
Place of enlistment - SYDNEY
Next of Kin - FAULKS THOMAS



MOMOTE, LOS NEGROS ISLAND, ADMIRALTY ISLANDS. C. 1944-04. THREE MEMBERS OF NO. 79 (SPITFIRE) SQUADRON RAAF STAND TOGETHER UNDER A SIGN READING "MEN OF BOYS TOWN". COULD BE FLIGHT SERGEANT "SLEEPY" FAULKS; CLEM SCHMITZER AND WAL HOWARD.
Anakie East, Victoria. 24 May 1943. Informal group portrait of pilots of the newly formed No. 79 (Spitfire) Squadron RAAF resting outside their operations hut in the dispersal area at Wooloomanata Homestead, 1580 Geelong-Bacchus Marsh Road. Left to right: 404272 Flying Officer (FO) W. J. (Jeff) Wilkinson; 420930 Sergeant N. S. I. (Neville) Faulks; 405026 FO P. E. (Paul) Sebire; 407174 Pilot Officer D. H. (David) Hopton (seated on the ground).

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79 SQN

79 Squadron was formed at Laverton, Victoria, on 26 April 1943. The squadron received its first Spitfire VC aircraft a month later, when it was ordered to deploy to Goodenough I...

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