Service Details
Name:
 SMALLIE
Given Name:
 DAN NORMAN
Initials:
 D N
Service No:
 778818
Trade:
 Pilot
Rank:
 Sergeant
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Regiment:
 Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
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Date of Death:
 1943-03-28
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Date of Birth:
 1911-06-05
Age:
 31
Cause of Death:
 Died in Aircraft Accident, Wellington VIII LB223, crashed between Turnberry and Girvan at night, on coming into land with flaps and undercarriage down. Received Red Signal. Machine had partly completed circuit with flaps and undercarriage still down, when it stalled and crashed
Additional
Information:
Son of Bertram and Hilda Smallie, of Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia; husband of Anne Francis Smallie, of Bulawayo. Entered Grey House in April, 1920. Dan left Plumtree in July 1927, and before attesting in 1941 he was employed with the Rhodesian Iron and Steel Corporation at Bulawayo. School Record: Under 12 Athletic Champion, 1922; Inter-School Boxing Team, 1927. He attended the Imperial Jamboree at Wembley in 1924. On Plumtree School Roll of Honour
Commemoration
Country:
 United Kingdom
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Locality:
 Ayrshire
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Cemetery:
 DUNURE CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
 Sec. E. (White) Grave 283.

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