Geoffrey Herbert Weston Hamilton
Name: Geoffrey Herbert Weston Hamilton
Rank: Leading Aircraftman
Service Number: 413063
Branch: Royal New Zealand Air Force
Date of Death: 19 Jan 1942
Posted to: No. 12 Service Flying Training School in Brandon, Manitoba
Particulars of death:
- Died in an aircraft crash. The Operational Record Book doesn’t list which aircraft he was flying at the time of the crash but it was either Crane 7747 or Crane 7756. Both of these aircraft where destroyed in this incident. The pilot of the other Crane was LAC Ross Francis Kitto also of the Royal New Zealand Air Force who was also killed in the crash. Further research is required.
Place of Internment: Brandon Cemetery, Brandon, Manitoba, Canada
Related Pages:
Links:
- Operational Record Book:
- CASPIR – Canadian Aircraft Serials Personnel Information Resource
- Commonwealth War Graves Commission
- New Zealand War Graves Project
- Find a Grave, database and images (www.findagrave.com/memorial/133902961/g.-h._w.-hamilton : accessed 25 July 2021), memorial page for L-A-C G. H. W. Hamilton (unknown–19 Jan 1942), Find a Grave Memorial ID 133902961, citing Brandon Municipal Cemetery, Brandon, Brandon Census Division, Manitoba, Canada ; Maintained by McKinn (contributor 47361452) .