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W/O. Harold Douglas Whiting
Royal Australian Air Force 103 Squadron
from:Clontarf, Qld
Harold Whiting was flying in a Wellington aircraft on the 11th of January 1942 when a parachute flare went off in the cargo bay. The plane was on fire and they were ordered to bale out by the captain. He did but the captain then managed to fly the plane home to Britain. He was then captured and was a POW in various camps until released from Stalag IIIA by the Russians.