Keith Stuart Strode-Penny

Flight Lieutenant

Conflict:

WW2

Additional Information:

Son of William Alfred Strode-Penny, and of Dorothy Margaret Strode-Penny (nee Russell), of Oamaru, Otago; husband of Doris Ruby Strode-Penny, of Palmerston North.

References:

CWGC

Martyn (1998)

Relatives Who Are Also Casualties:

Russell William Strode-Penny, Brother, 18/12/1942

NZ WAR GRAVES

Biographical Notes:

Flying a Harvard in an exercise from the Central Flying School, Tauranga, he executed a dummy attack on another aircraft. When climbing out too sharply, he stalled, failed to recover and crashed near the airfield.

[For Your Tomorrow, Errol Martyn, Volume 1, Page 263]

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Casualty

Service Number:

39932

Name:

Keith Stuart Strode-Penny

Rank:

Flight Lieutenant

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:

26 October 1942

Day of Death:

Monday

Age at Death:

Conflict:

WW2

Embarkation Details

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

Cemetery

Cemetery:

Levin (Tiro Tiro Road) Cemetery

Cemetery Reference:

45. 46.

Cemetery Location:

New Zealand