BEAUFIGHTER CRASHED
10 MILES INLAND FROM JUNCTION BAY
BETWEEN MILLINGIMBI & COOMALIE CREEK, NT
ON 21 NOVEMBER 1943

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Mark XI Beaufighter, A19-145 (RAF Serial No. JM185) of 31 Squadron RAAF, piloted by Mr. Gaunt, went missing on a flight between Millingimbi and Coomalie Creek airfield in the Northern Territory on 21 November 1943. It was eventually discovered many years later in 1993, about 10 miles inland from Junction Bay. (Map Reference 12.25 - 134.02)

The aircraft had been delivered to the RAAF in July 1943.

In Memory of

HENRY HARRINGTON GAUNT

Flight Sergeant
406899
Royal Australian Air Force
who died on
Sunday, 21st November 1943. Age 23.

Son of Sydney Harrington Gaunt and Mary Howell Gaunt; husband of Lesley Andree Gaunt, of Kojonup, Western Australia.

Memorial: NORTHERN TERRITORY MEMORIAL, Northern Territory, Australia
Grave Reference/Panel Number: Panel 9.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
I would like to thank Phil Herdman of the Arnhem Land Historical Society for details on the above incident.

REFERENCE BOOK
"Beaufort, Beaufighter and Mosquito - In Australian Service"
By Stewart Wilson

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