Brian Joseph O'Connor

Flight Sergeant

Conflict:

WW2

Additional Information:

Son of Leonard O'Connor and of Ethel Clara O'Connor (nee Smith), of Auckland City, New Zealand.

References:

CWGC

Martyn (1998)

NZ WAR GRAVES

Biographical Notes:

Brian O'Connor was a passenger aboard a Lodestar flying from Bilbies East to Lydda, Palestine. The aircraft struck a tent of take-off and crashed killing all 13 aboard.

[For Your Tomorrow, Errol Martyn. Vol 1,p.261]

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Casualty

Service Number:

404933

Name:

Brian Joseph O'Connor

Rank:

Flight Sergeant

Date of Birth:

Not known

Date of Enlistment:

Not known

Unit:

Royal New Zealand Air Force, 267 (RAF) Squadron

Casualty Details

Cause of Death:

Killed on air operations

Date of Death:

22 October 1942

Day of Death:

Thursday

Age at Death:

Conflict:

WW2

Embarkation Details

Embarkation Body:

Royal New Zealand Air Force

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

Cemetery

Cemetery:

Heliopolis War Cemetery

Cemetery Reference:

2. G. 28.

Cemetery Location:

Egypt