Walter Robert De Maus

Flying Officer

Conflict:

WW2

Additional Information:

Son of A. W. De Maus and of Catherine De Maus, of Auckland City.

References:

CWGC

NZ WAR GRAVES

Biographical Notes:

Walter was the only fatality of a ground collision between aircraft at Ardmore. He was the pilot instructor on a Harvard that was stuck by another aircraft making a poor landing. Robert had served operationally in Asia 1941-2 and while at Singapore had survived a mid-air collision with a Gipsy Moth in which Plt. Off. W Felton died.

[For Your Tomorrow, Errol Martyn, Volume 2, Page 225]

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Casualty

Service Number:

41558

Name:

Walter Robert De Maus

Rank:

Flying 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:

16 May 1944

Day of Death:

Tuesday

Age at Death:

Conflict:

WW2

Embarkation Details

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

Cemetery

Cemetery:

Auckland (Waikumete) Cemetery

Cemetery Reference:

Prot. Soldiers Area H, Row 2, Grave 16.

Cemetery Location:

New Zealand