CRASH OF A REPUBLIC LANCER
AT GORDON'S GULLY,
NEAR HEALESVILLE, VIC
ON 29 APRIL 1943

RAAF P-43 Republic Lancer, A56-7, of 1PRU crashed in thick forest on the side of Gordon Gully near Healesville in Victoria on 29 April 1943. The pilot was P/O D. Green of Western Australia. The Lancer crashed on a flight between Wagga and Laverton. 

The aircraft was not found until June 1958 and the pilot's body was never found. The newspaper article on the discovery of the crashed aircraft was in the Melbourne Sun on 11 June 1958 . (Has anyone got a copy of the article?)

The crash site was subsequently rediscovered by bushwalkers in the early 1970s. 

Geoffrey Negus provided the following information:-

406393 Plt Off Alan William Green, RAAF, SHQ Laverton, age 25, died 29.4.43 is buried at Perth War Cemetery & Annex. Son of Ernest George and Mary Emily Green, of Harvey. (Sources: Australian War Memorial and Commonwealth War Graves Commission.) I know his initials aren't D as in your report, but it seems too much of a coincidence.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

I'd like to thank Rick Hanning, Keith Richmond, Geoffrey Negus and Carl Smoot for their assistance with this home page.

Can anyone help me with more information on this crash?

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