PITFIELD, Alan Leonard
| Service Number: | 39007 |
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| Enlisted: | 1 January 1935 |
| Last Rank: | Flight Lieutenant |
| Last Unit: | RAAF Point Cook |
| Born: | Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, 1918 |
| Home Town: | Hobart, Tasmania |
| Schooling: | Friends' School, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia |
| Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
| Died: | Killed in Action, France, 12 June 1940 |
| Cemetery: |
Beaurepaire Communal Cemetery, Beaurepaire, Picardie, France |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour |
World War 2 Service
| 1 Jan 1935: | Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, RAAF Point Cook | |
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| 3 Sep 1939: | Involvement Flight Lieutenant, 39007 | |
| 16 Jul 1940: | Involvement Royal Air Force , Flight Lieutenant, 39007, Air War NW Europe 1939-45, 88 Squadron RAF KIA |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by David Barlow
Flight Lieutenant Alan Leonard Pitfield DFC was the son of Leonard Charles and Dorothy Ida Pitfield of Hobart, Tasmania
Alan Pitfield enlisted in the RAAF at Point Cook as an Air Cadet at the start of 1935 and graduated as a pilot at the end of that year. In early 1936 he was part of a group of RAAF pilot graduates to transfer to the RAF where he was assigned RAF Service Number 39007
FLTLT Pitfield was killed when Fairey Battle aircraft L5334 of Number 88 Squadron RAF crashed near Beaurepaire (Oise) 38 km south-east of Beauvais, France in June 1940 after taking off from Moisy airfield - also killed was Sergeant Ballantyne 580936 RAF
He is buried in France - he is commemorated on the AWM Roll of Honour as a Royal Australian Air Force casualty and by the CWGC as a Royal Air Force casualty