Service number | O335 |
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Birth Date | 1912-09-08 |
Birth Place | Australia: New South Wales, Tenterfield |
Death Date | 1973-11-23 |
Final Rank | Group Captain |
Service | Royal Australian Air Force |
Unit | No. 91 (Composite) Wing |
Place | Tenterfield |
Conflicts/Operations |
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Gazettes |
Published in Commonwealth Gazette in 1955-05-05 Published in London Gazette in 1963-01-01 Published in London Gazette in 1955-04-26 Published in Commonwealth Gazette in 1963-01-17 |
Group Captain Dixie Robison Chapman
Rolls
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Honours and Awards:
- Unit
- No. 91 (Composite) Wing
- Conflict
- Korea, 1950-1953
- Rank
- Group Captain
- London Gazette
- 26 April 1955 on page 2418 at position 4
- Commonwealth Gazette
- 05 May 1955 on page 1387 at position 4
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Honours and Awards:
- Conflict
- Period 1960-1969
- Rank
- Group Captain
- London Gazette
- 01 January 1963 on page 36 at position 14
- Commonwealth Gazette
- 17 January 1963 on page 223 at position 2
Timeline
Date of birth | 08 September 1912 | |
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Date and unit at enlistment (ORs) | 1934 | Air cadet. |
Other units | 1935 | Fighter Squadron (Bulldogs). |
Date promoted | 1935-07 | Pilot officer. |
Other units | 1936 | Flying instructor and Flight Commander at Point Cook. |
Date promoted | 01 February 1936 | Flying officer. |
Date promoted | 1938 | Flight lieutenant. |
Other units | 1939-07 | Deputy Director of Training, RAAF Headquarters. |
Date promoted | 01 June 1940 | Squadron leader. |
Other units | 28 December 1940 | Commanding Officer No 23 Squadron. |
Other units | 23 December 1941 | Commanding Officer No 3 Squadron. |
Date promoted | 01 July 1942 | Wing commander. |
Other units | 13 April 1943 | Commanding Officer No 451 Squadron. |
Date promoted | 01 December 1943 | Group captain. |
Other units | 02 March 1944 | Commanding Officer No 4 Service Flying Training School. |
Other units | 12 August 1945 | Commanding Officer No 84 (Army Co-Op) Wing Bougainville. |
Other units | 1952 | Commanding Officer No 91 Wing RAAF. |
Other units | 1954 | Air Attache - Washington. |
Other units | 1956 | Officer Commanding RAAF Base Amberley. |
Other units | 1959 | Headquarters Operation Command. |
Other units | 1960 | Officer Commanding RAAF Base Darwin. |
Other units | 1963 | Department of Air. |
Date of death | 23 November 1973 |
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