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Brian Cecil Heaps

Conflict: 
WW2
Additional Information: 

Son of Arthur Moore and Guinevere Eileen Heaps, of Christchurch. Canterbury.

References:
  • CWGC
NZ WAR GRAVES

Biographical Notes:

Flying a Harvard, solo, he followed another aircraft through the Dee river valley, but failed to gain height in rising terrain. Attempt to climb out of the valley, he stalled and crashed. Due to the remoteness and difficulties of the area, he was buried at the crash site.

[For Your Tomorrow, Errol Martyn, Volume 1, Page 191]

 

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Casualty

Service Number: 
415413
Name:
Brian Cecil Heaps
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:
22 March 1942
Day of Death:
Sunday
Age at Death: 
21
Conflict: 
WW2

Embarkation Details

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

Cemetery

Cemetery: 
Canterbury Provincial Memorial
Cemetery Location: 
New Zealand
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