GRIFFITH, Ernest Hamilton
| Service Number: | 403334 |
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| Enlisted: | 6 January 1941, Sydney, NSW |
| Last Rank: | Flight Lieutenant |
| Last Unit: | No. 456 Squadron (RAAF) |
| Born: | Albury, New South Wales, Australia, 22 May 1916 |
| Home Town: | Narrandera, Narrandera, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Stock Agent and Grazier |
| Died: | Accidental, RAF Colerne, England, United Kingdom, 29 September 1943, aged 27 years |
| Cemetery: |
Bath (Haycombe) Cemetery Plot 51. Sec. H. Row V. Grave 248. |
| Memorials: | Albury Club Honour Roll WW2, Albury Commercial Club Honor Roll, Albury Grammar School Honour Roll, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Narrandera WW2 War Memorial |
World War 2 Service
| 3 Sep 1939: | Involvement Flight Lieutenant, 403334 | |
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| 6 Jan 1941: | Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Lieutenant, 403334, No. 456 Squadron (RAAF), Sydney, NSW |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Faithe Jones
Son of Samuel Edward and Alexandrina Gale, of Balwyn, Victoria, Australia.
ALL HE HAD HOPED FOR, ALL HE HAD, HE GAVE
Notification was received on Saturday to the effect that flying Officer Ernest H. Griffith had been killed in an aircraft accident in England on 29th September.
Flying Officer Griffith was a son of Mrs. Griffith and the late Mr. C. H. Griffith, of "Dellaware," Albury, and was aged 27 years. Before his enlistment in the R.A.A.F. he was on the staff of Messrs. Dalgety and Co. Ltd. at Narandera, and afterwards at Albury.
He received his elementary flying training at Narandera and obtained his wings at Wagga. He had been overseas two years. Flying Officer Griffith was a member of the Murrumbidgee Club and the Narandera Picnic Race Club, and was an amateur rider.
He married Miss June McCracken, duughter of Mr. and Mrs. M. R. McCracken, of "Wirrani," Narandera, who, with an infant daughter (Susan), survives him.
Also surviving him are his mother, two step-brothers, Captain J. H. Griffith (A.I.F.) and Mr. Tom Griffith, of Albury, and two sisters, Misses Helen and Meg Griffith, who are A.I.F.
nursing sisters.
Biography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon
He was 27 and the son of Charles Hunter Griffith and Olive May Griffith, of Albury, New South Wales, Australia; husband of June Margaret Murray Griffith, of Narrandera, New South Wales and father of Susan Hamilton Griffith of Narrandera, New South Wales. Previously served in the 21st Light Horse Regiment prior to enlisting in the RAAF 06.01.1941.
He had survived an earlier accident over Abbotts Ripton, Huntingdonshire on Saturday 10th April 1943, when, as pilot of a Spitfire, [11a P 7677] his machine was involved in a mid-air collision with a Wellington bomber 1A N2865 based at RAF Sutton Bridge, Lincolnshire killing the entire crew. Ernest baled out and survived, injured. Ernest went on to serve as a pilot with 456 Squadron flying Mosquitoes.
His Mosquito, NF.11 DF690 crashed at RAF Colerne, Wiltshire. His passenger, 23 year old Corporal William Henry Blakeley [Royal Australian Air Force] AUS/26160 RAAF was also killed and also rests in Bath Haycombe Cemetery, Grave: Plot 51. Sec. H. Row T. Grave 248.
Biography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon
Deaths Sep 1943 GRIFFITH Ernest H 32 Chippenham 5a.
His death registration shows his age as 32.
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