Rodney George Dandy

Pilot Officer

Conflict:

WW2

Additional Information:

Son of George Alfred and Mary Dandy; husband of Isabel Dandy, of Dallington, Christchurch, Canterbury.

References:

CWGC

NZ WAR GRAVES

Biographical Notes:

Oxford 1 left Bell Block to undertake machine gun firing off the Taranaki coast and then proceed to Kawhia before returning to base. The last transmission heard was at 10.41 on the 23^rd Oct 1942. Despite extensive searches the aircraft and crew could not be located.

In 1974, two men stumbled across the wreck in a valley in the Touakai Ranges, a fallen Rimu tree obscuring the site. The remains of the crew, Rodney Dandy, Graham Martin, Edward Dodson and Douglas Martyn, were returned to their home towns for burial. [For Your Tomorrow, Errol Martyn, Vol.1, p.261]

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Casualty

Service Number:

417031

Name:

Rodney George Dandy

Rank:

Pilot Officer

Date of Birth:

Not known

Date of Enlistment:

Not known

Unit:

Royal New Zealand Air Force

Casualty Details

Cause of Death:

Air Accident

Date of Death:

23 October 1942

Day of Death:

Friday

Age at Death:

Conflict:

WW2

Embarkation Details

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

Cemetery

Cemetery:

Wellington (Karori) Cemetery

Cemetery Reference:

39. Z/5.

Cemetery Location:

New Zealand