GRIFFITH, Ernest Hamilton
| Service Number: | 403334 |
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| Enlisted: | 6 January 1941 |
| Last Rank: | Flight Lieutenant |
| Last Unit: | No. 456 Squadron (RAAF) |
| Born: | Albury, New South Wales, Australia, 22 May 1916 |
| Home Town: | Not yet discovered |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
| 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., Haycombe Cemetery, Bath, Somerset, England, United Kingdom |
| Memorials: | 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) |
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Add my storyBiography 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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