In Memory Of
SMIT, PETER
Service Details
Age:
21
Date of Birth:
-0001-11-30
Service No:
207230V
Rank:
Lieutenant
Unit:
1675 Heavy Conversion Unit
Regiment:
South African Air Force
Date of Death:
1945-07-19
Cause of Death:
Died in Aircraft Accident, Liberator B.VI EV817. Aircraft climbed to a height of 500 ft. immediately after taking off. It then began to lose height, before climbing again. What followed was the aircraft then made a steep diving turn to port, from which it crashed and then destroyed by fire. The cause of the erratic flying was not positively determined but may have been a faulty artificial horizon or simply poor instrument flying
Commemoration
Grave Reference:
2. E. 15.
Cemetery:
MOASCAR WAR CEMETERY
Country:
Egypt
Additional Information
Son of Izak Tobias Smit and Bermina Fredrika Smit, of Oudtshoorn, Cape Province, South Africa.
