Ernest Fleetwood TRAVIS

TRAVIS, Ernest Fleetwood

Other Name: Till, Ernest Fleetwood - True Name
Service Number: 157020
Enlisted: Not yet discovered
Last Rank: Flying Officer
Last Unit: Royal Air Force - unspecified units
Born: Claremont, Western Australia, Australia, 1909
Home Town: Claremont, Western Australia
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Not yet discovered
Died: Ground Accident, Redhill Aerodrome, United Kingdom, 20 June 1944
Cemetery: Birkdale Cemetery (UK)
Sec. K. Grave 144.
Memorials: Kings Park Western Australia State War Memorial
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World War 2 Service

Date unknown: Involvement Flying Officer, 157020, Royal Air Force - unspecified units

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Biography contributed

(Served as TRAVIS). Son of Pte. Alan Gordon Till, Australian Infantry (killed in action at Gallipoli 6th/9th August, 1915) and Mabel Till; husband of Elizabeth Everard Travis, of Formby.

Flying Officer Till (also known as Travis) was killed when the guns of a Spitfire aircraft were fired in error.