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He was posted to George for about a year and was then seconded to the RAF along with 59
others. They travelled by sea to Britain via South America and Freetown, Sierra Leone.
In the UK he was posted to Cranwell Air Force School and then to No. 54 Operational
Training Unit in Berwick, Scotland for night-fighter training on the Mosquito Mark 2
fighter-bomber. On 6 December 1944, during a cross-country training flight from
Acklington, near Newcastle, to Berwick, his group flew into a snowstorm in which 28 of
60 airmen lost their lives. He held the rank of Captain.
His name is inscribed on Panel 264 at the Air Forces Memorial at Runnymeade, Surrey,
overlooking the River Thames. The Memorial contains the names of over 20,000 airmen
who were lost during operations from bases in the United Kingdom and North and Western
Europe, and who have no known graves.
He was survived by his grandparents, parents and sister Aimee.
Sources: Memorial Number of the Rondebosch Boys' High School Newsletter to the Old
Boys on Active Service; UCT Roll of Honour, 1949; Aimee Buxton; SA Archives.
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