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M G EVENSEN — Fleet Air Arm

1944-10-25 · near Karasau Island, New Guinea · New Guinea

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Name: M G EVENSEN
Rank: Captain
Official number: NGX189
Service/attached: Australian Imperial Force (AIF) Army
Squadron: 1 Air Liaison Group, Australian Headquarters
Date of death: 1944-10-25
Aircraft: Walrus X 9559
Place of death: near Karasau Island, New Guinea
Circumstances: KILLED
Buried/commemorated: LAE MEMORIAL, Papua
Commemoration details: Panel 1
Family details: Son of Olaf Anton Hagbart Evensen and Annie Matilda Evensen; husband of Marjorie Baalham Evensen, of Mosman, New South Wales, Aistralia

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