Postscript to our lonely Aussie

Apparently it was common to bury those aircrew killed in training or who died of wounds but whose bodies came home in local churchyards. I suppose since so many Aussies came out of Empire Air Training squadrons into the RAF as bomber or strike fighter aircrew, they would have ended up in rural areas (especially in Lincolnshire, as there were two bomber groups there), and so there are quite a few scattered in various spots. The best I can work out is that he was in an OTU, because the squadron in his record is 148, which was RAF and merged into 15 OTU and is hard to track, but was doing Wellington conversions – but not nearby! Did he fly into a hill on a training flight from Oxfordshire? 

Still, like all these records, it raises questions probably only a novelist could answer now. Was he motivated to enlist because Dad was a digger and, even with a wife and maybe family, he felt he should do his bit? Lily Sartoria is a bit exotic for suburban Sydney pre-war! Did he leave kids who never remembered their father? Love to know the answers.