Keith Edwin Hodge

Conflict:

WW2

Additional Information:

Husband of Jean Marie Hodge, of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

References:

CWGC

NZ WAR GRAVES

Biographical Notes:

Taking off from Wigram on ‘steep turns and single engine’ exercises, 35 minutes apart, the two Oxford aircraft, one flown by Keith Hodge and the other by Stuart Pettitt collided 3000ft above Halswell, when both aircraft executed turns without sufficient vertical separation.

[For Your Tomorrow, Errol Martyn, Volume 2, Page 262]

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Casualty

Service Number:

4312233

Name:

Keith Edwin Hodge

Date of Birth:

Not known

Date of Enlistment:

Not known

Unit:

Royal New Zealand Air Force

Casualty Details

Cause of Death:

Killed in an aircraft accident

Date of Death:

14 August 1944

Day of Death:

Monday

Age at Death:

Conflict:

WW2

Embarkation Details

Text in italics supplied by Cenotaph Online, Auckland War Memorial Museum

Cemetery

Cemetery:

Oamaru Cemetery

Cemetery Reference:

99. 71B.

Cemetery Location:

New Zealand