In Memory Of

CHURCHILL, ADRIAN HUGH

Service Details
Age:
 24
Date of Birth:
 -0001-11-30
Service No:
 FX85150
Rank:
 Lieutenant (A)
Unit:
 H.M.S. Illustrious
Regiment:
 Royal New Zealand Air Force
Date of Death:
 1945-04-07
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, Operation Iceberg (Battle of Okinawa), in attacks on Japanese airfields on Formosa (Taiwan) and the Sakishima Islands just off northern Taiwan. Shot down attacking Ishigaki Island
Commemoration
Cemetery:
 NEW ZEALAND NAVAL MEMORIAL, DEVONPORT, AUCKLAND
Localitly:
 North Shore City
Country:
 New Zealand
Additional Information
Decorations:
 Mentioned in Despatches
Husband of Shirley (nee McLeod) Churchill. Corsair Pilot, 1833NAS, FAA, HMS Illustrious, British Pacific Fleet. He was a New Zealander from Rongotea. Attended Palmerston North Boys' High School. In January 1941 left New Zealand for Britain for pilot training in the Fleet Air Arm. Served with the NAS 890 initially. Known as as Winnie. While training in Wingfield, Cape Town, he met and married Miss Shirley McLeod, daughter of Major and Mrs McLeod, of Wynberg, Cape Town. They had a son also named Hugh Adrian Churchill. Adrian never got to meet his son. Shirley died in 1967, and their son Hugh passed away in 2007.