In Memory Of

SMALLIE, DAN NORMAN

Service Details
Age:
 31
Date of Birth:
 1911-06-05
Service No:
 778818
Rank:
 Sergeant
Regiment:
 Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Date of Death:
 1943-03-28
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
Commemoration
Grave Reference:
 Sec. E. (White) Grave 283.
Cemetery:
 DUNURE CEMETERY
Localitly:
 Ayrshire
Country:
 United Kingdom
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