FLIGHT LIEUTENANT ANDREW KEVIN BYRNE SERVICE NUMBER 404003

Andrew's Service record is available at the National Archives here by typing in his Surname, select from the drop down menu category: Air Force personnel records and Service number 404003. In addition there is also his Australian War Memorial service document.

Chapter 15 'To Italy and Northward" (page 163) of our Official Squadron History 'We Find and Destroy' Current/2002 edition describes F/LT Andrew's initiative: "The CO obtained a flat in Ancona, and kept it going throughout the time they were there. It was lacking comforts until F/Lt  A. K. 'Bunny' Byrne, who had been one of the first into Rimini after that city was taken, returned with a party in a 3-ton truck to get some furniture. Rimini was heavily booby-trapped and the procedure was to tie a cord to a desired item, retire a discreet distance and then move it by pulling the cord. Byrne's trip and subsequent ones, succeeded in very adequately furnishing the flat in Ancona and the Flight Offices."

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