In Memory Of

WILSON, NORMAN GLADSWOOD

Service Details
Age:
 30
Date of Birth:
 -0001-11-30
Service No:
 77694
Rank:
 Flight Lieutenant
Regiment:
 Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Date of Death:
 1942-04-18
Cause of Death:
 Died in Aircraft Accident, Lancaster I R5539, air crash, two miles NE of Malmesbury, Wiltshire
Commemoration
Grave Reference:
 Sec. E. Grave 707.
Cemetery:
 EDINBURGH (MORNINGSIDE) CEMETERY
Localitly:
 Edinburgh
Country:
 United Kingdom
Additional Information
Born in South Africa and became well-known in Europe in motor racing circles prior to the war. London Gazette #2816 dated 16th May 1941 advises that he was promoted to the war substantive rank of Flying Officer with effect 6th April 1941. On East London Golf Club Roll of Honour. He was part of a crew testing a prototype Lancaster which crashed on Salisbury Plain