KING – Herbert Allan

05474 – Flight Sergeant – pilot – 542 Sqn – Spitfire EN424 – KIA 14/4-1944 (at 25) – Runnymede Memorial, Surrey, UK

Volunteer Trinidad ETS, last course. Trained at Piarco. Shot down by AA fire at 1425hrs on 14 Apr 1944 twenty miles north of Le Havre. A/C was engaged in air reconnaisance operation at the time. Body never recovered. Commemorated at Runnymead – Son of George Reynold King and Beatrice Ann King, of St. Michael, Barbados, British West Indies.

[Source: CMHA, CG, CWGC]

605474 – H.A. King – Trinidad – attested 28.7.42 – Sgt. Pilot UK 28.3.43
Missing (FB) 14.4.44

[Source: NA AIR 2/6876]

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