In Memory Of

BARTHOLOMEW, RODNEY JAMES

Service Details
Age:
 24
Date of Birth:
 1915-06-28
Rank:
 Pilot Officer
Unit:
 80 Sqdn.
Regiment:
 Royal Air Force
Date of Death:
 1939-07-14
Cause of Death:
 Died in Aircraft Accident, Gladiator I, K8010, failed to pull out of a dive during a practice ground attack on an 80 Squadron road convoy underway to Amriya, hit ground 4 miles north of Wadi Natrun, on Cairo-Alexandria road, Egypt.
Commemoration
Grave Reference:
 Plot N2 Grave 64.
Cemetery:
 CAIRO NEW BRITISH PROTESTANT CEMETERY
Country:
 Egypt
Additional Information
Son of Rodney Arthur Bartholomew, a journalist, and Kathleen Bartholomew (nee O'Connor). Born Cape Town. Granted Short Service Commission as Probationary Pilot Officer, 12 July 1937. Undertook his flying training at 9 FTS, Hullavington from 17 July 1937, and joined his first operational unit, 41 (F) Squadron (Fury II) at Catterick, on 19 February 1938. He was posted to 80 (F) Squadron (Gladiator I) at Debden on 27 April 1938, and embarked London for Egypt with the squadron on 30 April 1938.