In Memory Of

MAJOR, MICHAEL WAKEMAN

Service Details
Age:
 28
Date of Birth:
 1912-12-21
Service No:
 80086
Rank:
 Pilot Officer
Regiment:
 Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Date of Death:
 1941-07-22
Cause of Death:
 Died in Aircraft Accident, Hampden I P5305, night navigation exercise. On its return, during landing they undershot the runway and crashed in a field next to the airfield at 02:15 hrs.
Commemoration
Grave Reference:
 Sec. B. Grave 88.
Cemetery:
 UPPER HEYFORD CEMETERY
Localitly:
 Oxfordshire
Country:
 United Kingdom
Additional Information
Son of the Revd. Henry Dewsbury Alves Major, D.D., F.S.A., and of Mary Eliza Major, of Merton Vicarage. B.A. (Oxon.): Exeter College. Attended Dragon School, Oxford. Attended Sherborne School (School House) September 1926-December 1928. Clerk to the High Court of Justice, Southern Rhodesia. Took his aviators' certificate in a DH60 Gipsy at Eastbourne Flying Club on 16 September 1937.