LIGHTBODY – Hugh Arthur

Name: LIGHTBODY, HUGH ARTHUR
Initials: H A
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Flight Lieutenant (Pilot)
Regiment/Service: Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Unit Text: 515 Sqdn.
Age: 28
Date of Death: 15/07/1944
Service No: 116893
Additional information: Son of Godfrey Kennett Lightbody and Beatrice Kate Lightbody, of Malvern. Jamaica.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: X. A. 12.
Cemetery: HOTTON WAR CEMETERY

Mosquito FB.VI – PZ293 – escort bombers airfield Florennes, Belgium. Pilot blinded by search lights, crashed 4 km SSW of Chaumont, Namur, 23 km WSW of Dinant, Belgium. Also killed F/Sgt E.J.A. Broomfield – 1451239 (both first buried at Florennes).

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One addition to “LIGHTBODY – Hugh Arthur”

  1. Mark Haycock adds:

    Enlisted UK RAFVR Autumn 1937 Sergeant Pilot 740743
    Called up for full time service September 1939

    Awarded Air Efficiency Award 27/7/1944
    The Air Efficiency Award 1942-2005 Nominal Roll – Christopher Brooks

    December 29th, 2011 at 12:37 am

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