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Robert Stuart Pettitt

Conflict: 
WW2
Additional Information: 

Son of Robert Leslie and Winifred Mary Pettitt; husband of Winifred June Pettitt, of Winton, Southland.

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: 
439407
Name:
Robert Stuart Pettitt
Rank: 
Sergeant
Date of Birth:
Not known
Next of Kin: 
Winifred Pettit (wife), Winton, Southland, New Zealand
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: 
27
Conflict: 
WW2

Embarkation Details

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

Cemetery

Cemetery: 
Dunedin (Anderson's Bay) Cemetery
Cemetery Reference: 
24. 3.
Cemetery Location: 
New Zealand
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