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Old 30-05-2008, 04:12 AM   #7 (permalink)
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Albania

POTTER, DENNIS HILTON
Flight Sergeant
427021
624sq RAF
1/02/1944

TENNANT, EDWARD DRAKE STEELE
Flight Sergeant
410105
624sq RAF
1/02/1944

WADDELL, PETER VICTOR
Warrant Officer
401163
249sq RAF
30/03/1944

The only info I have for Waddell is from the Australian roll of honour:

Informal portrait of 401163 Warrant Officer (WO) Peter Victor Waddell of Melbourne, Vic, standing on the deck of the Polish steamer Narvick, which rescued him and seven other Australian sergeant pilots after the arcades was torpedoed. WO Waddell later served with 249 Squadron, RAF and was later lost on operations on 30 March 1944 over Albania.

Photo here: AWM Collection Record: P03809.006 - Informal portrait of 401163 Warrant Officer (WO) Peter Victor Waddell of Melbourne, Vic, standing on the deck of the Polish steamer Narvick, which rescued him and seven other Australian sergeant ...
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"You were given the choice between war and dishonor.
You chose dishonor and you will have war."

(Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.)

What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site:
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