Four Australian pilots were buried in Pakistan after passing away while serving in the Second World War, and their story is one of mateship.
Flying Officer Geoffrey Colin Scott is interred at the Rawalpindi War Cemetery, while Pilot Officers George Logan Allan and Gregor Harold Milne, Flying Officer John Robert Spalding, and Flying Officer George Logan Allan are interred at the Karachi War Cemetery.
These individuals died while fighting in the Royal Australian Air Force during World War II in South Asia, including present-day Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, India, and Myanmar.
Many Australian airmen were trained as part of the “Empire Air Training Scheme” during the war, according to Professor Peter Stanley.
“They received their training in Australia and Canada before being sent, as was the case with squadrons, to British, Australian, or other British Empire troops wherever they were needed, mostly in Britain but also in the Middle East and the Far East, ” he said.
