Branch of Service

Air Force

Conflict

World War II (1939-1945)

Date of Enlistment

18/07/1942

Place of Enlistment

Sydney NSW

Gender

Male

Date of Birth

19/07/1922

Place of Birth

Goulburn NSW

Address (at enlistment)

Canberra ACT, according to photographs listed below. There is no Roll of Honour Circular.

School(s) Attended

Canberra Grammar School

Occupation

Public servant

Next of Kin

Son of Ernest Milton Margules and Lillian Sarah Elizabeth Margules. Husband of Zoe Margules of Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

Burial Place

Durnbach War Cemetery, Bad Tolz, Bayern, Germany: Collective grave 2. A. 2-6

Service Number

423801

Final Rank

Warrant Officer

Final Unit

467 Squadron RAAF

Died 16-17 March 1945 aged 22 in flying battle, Germany.

AWM Roll of Honour: Panel 111.
Canberra Grammar School. Roll of honour 1939-45; and memorial window in school chapel.

Margules was a student at Canberra Grammar during the 1930s and after completing his schooling he worked for the Department of Interior. He was in the first year of an Arts degree at Canberra University College when he enlisted in the RAAF in July 1942. Margules was sent to Canada under the Empire Air Training Scheme and while there he married in July 1943. He was then sent to Britain and joined 467 Squadron, a RAAF squadron flying Lancaster bombers which was attached to Bomber Command. He was a crew member in a Lancaster bomber (PD.231) involved in a raid on Wurzburg, Germany on the night of 16 March 1945 when it was seen to be on fire approaching the village of Aufstetten, south of Wurzburg. The plane crashed, killing the crew. Margules was buried in a collective grave at Durnbach War Cemetery in Germany.

Australia. Department of Veterans' Affairs. World War 2 nominal roll. <http://www.ww2roll.gov.au/>
Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Debt of Honour Register. <http://www.cwgc.org/cwgcinternet/search/>
AWM Roll of Honour and Roll of Honour Circulars <http://www.awm.gov.au/database/roh.asp>
AWM Collections Record : UK2238, UK2239
NAA RecordSearch - Series A9301
Image courtesy of Pamela Hunt, Canberra Grammar School archives
The Canberra Times - 26 January 1938, 25 April 1945, 9 May 1945