In Memory Of

HASWELL, HUGH

Service Details
Age:
 21
Date of Birth:
 -0001-11-30
Service No:
 72482
Rank:
 Flying Officer
Unit:
 59 Sqdn.
Regiment:
 Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Date of Death:
 1940-07-25
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, in Blenheim L9473, shot down off Portland Bill, on channel patrol had located the survivors of an attack on SS Weknes the previous night, they sighted approx 50 survivors in a life raft and called in the RN to aid them. A little further on they sighted empty life rafts with bodies floating nearby
Commemoration
Grave Reference:
 Panel 5.
Cemetery:
 RUNNYMEDE MEMORIAL
Localitly:
 Surrey
Country:
 United Kingdom
Additional Information
Son of Hugh Charles and Ann Cole Haswell, of Johannesburg, Transvaal, South Africa.