AWM SUK12499

Portrait of a pilot in flying gear and holding a pipe to his lips

Wing Commander William Alexander Forbes DSO, DFC, born in Charters Towers, Queensland, on 28 December 1919; enlisted in the RAAF in Brisbane on 9 May 1941; Commanding Officer No. 463 Squadron RAAF; killed in an attack on the Mitteland Canal on 21–22 February 1945, aged 26; buried in Reichswald Forest War Cemetery, Germany. [AWM SUK12499]

Source
AWM SUK12499
Place made
London, England
Copyright

Copyright expired - public domain

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