COMMANDER OF AUSTRALIAN BOMBER SQUADRON AT TWENTY-FOUR. - Wing Commander William Alexander Forbes, DFC., of Sydney, New South Wales, who, at the age of 24, has taken over command of the R.A.A.F. Lancaster bomber squadron, formerly commanded by Wing Commander R. Kingsford Smith, DFC. When his award of the D.F.C. was announced in December 1943 the citation referred to his part in the attack on Peenemunde when in spite of attacks by enemy fighters he pressed home his attack on the German research station which was then planning the flying bomb. Before joining up, he was for 18 months advertising

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COMMANDER OF AUSTRALIAN BOMBER SQUADRON AT TWENTY-FOUR. - Wing Commander William Alexander Forbes, DFC., of Sydney, New South Wales, who, at the age of 24, has taken over command of the R.A.A.F. Lancaster bomber squadron, formerly commanded by Wing Commander R. Kingsford Smith, DFC. When his award of the D.F.C. was announced in December 1943 the citation referred to his part in the attack on Peenemunde when in spite of attacks by enemy fighters he pressed home his attack on the German research station which was then planning the flying bomb. Before joining up, he was for 18 months advertising manager of the Queensland branch of the Dunlop Rubber Co. His wife lives at Bundaberg, Queensland. Both his father, Mr., James Alexander Forbes, and his grandfather, the late Mr. Alex Forbes, were well-known athletes and footballers at Charters Towers, Queensland. Picture issued 1944. Photographic negative , Royal Air Force