Service Details
Name:
 GREEN
Given Name:
 GORDON CYRIL
Initials:
 G C
Service No:
 102188
Rank:
 Air Sergeant
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Regiment:
 South African Air Force
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Unit:
 24 Sqdn.
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Date of Death:
 1941-08-05
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Date of Birth:
 1917-09-11
Age:
 23
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, 4 crew (1 RAAF), crew's bodies found and buried at Rad el Kanayas, in Martin Maryland Mk I/II #AH354. Took off on 5 August 1941 to carry out an operational mission at Derna, Cyrenaica. The pilots of accompanying aircraft reported that AH 354 was caught in 10 search lights and shot down in flames at 2200 hours on 5th August., the aircraft crashing into the sea east of Derna. Crew: SAAF Lt Clarkson, C L (Pilot) RAAF 407028 Sgt Fuller, C J (Observer) SAAF Sgt Green, G C (Air Gunner) SAAF Sgt Read, H A (Air Gunner) It was later reported that some bodies from AH 354 had been recovered and buried but the graves could not be located. The body of Sgt Read (SAAF) was recovered and is buried in the El Alamein War Cemetery.
Additional
Information:
Son of Cyril Walter Green, of Kimberley. Commemoration stone in Kimberley (West End) Cemetery
Commemoration
Country:
 Egypt
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Cemetery:
 ALAMEIN MEMORIAL
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Grave Reference:
 Column 247.

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