DEFENCE force personnel and dignitaries gathered last Friday (10 July) to commemorate the 84th anniversary of the loss of a Bristol Beaufort bomber that crashed on Arthurs Seat on 12 July 1942 with the loss of four crew. The crash was not the first, as another RAAF aircraft, an Arvo Anson A4 crashed into Arthurs Seat four years earlier, on 10 August 1938, also with the loss of four crew, with one survivor. Early on the morning of 12 July 1942, 100SQN Beaufort A9-64 launched from RAAF Laverton to conduct an anti-submarine patrol just off Philip Island. In the three…
Monday, July 13
