Harry Martyn RADCLIFFE

RADCLIFFE, Harry Martyn

Service Number: 407876
Enlisted: 1 February 1941, Adelaide
Last Rank: Pilot Officer
Last Unit: Not yet discovered
Born: Adelaide, South Australia, 11 November 1917
Home Town: Adelaide, South Australia
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Not yet discovered
Died: Accidental (Ground Accident), West Freugh, Scotland, United Kingdom, 2 June 1944, aged 26 years
Cemetery: Stoneykirk Cemetery (UK)
C 125, Stoneykirk Cemetery, Stoneykirk, Scotland, United Kingdom
Memorials: Adelaide Pulteney Grammar School WW2 Honour Roll, Adelaide WW2 Wall of Remembrance, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour
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World War 2 Service

1 Feb 1941: Involvement Pilot Officer, 407876
1 Feb 1941: Enlisted Adelaide
1 Feb 1941: Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Pilot Officer, 407876
Date unknown: Involvement

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Biography contributed by David Barlow

Pilot Officer Harry Martin Radcliffe 407876 (Wireless Operator) of Number 4 (Officer’s) Advanced Flying Unit RAF (West Freugh, Scotland) was detailed to fly on a night navigation flight in Anson aircraft 9176

He had returned to the briefing room to collect his flying helmet and was walking back to the aircraft dispersal along the taxying track when he was struck on the head by the port propeller of Anson LV290 which was taxying in the same direction in which he was walking.