(No. 24 Squadron Liberator aircraft A72-196) Here is just one name of a locally born young man that trained here in Ballarat and subsequently lost his life in the defence of our nation in our Battle for Australia. Patrick Fraser STANLEY, Born Ballarat on 3rd November 1921, Enlisted in RAAF on 1st April 1943, Commenced No 1 Wireless Air Gunners Course No 46 at 1WAGS RAAF Ballarat commencing on 9th December 1943, Killed in Action as Flight Sergeant STANLEY P. F. on 5th July 1945 in a Flying Battle over Borneo. Buried in foreign soil at Labuan War Cemetery, Malaysia.