LEST WE FORGET
Pilot Officer George Leslie Lachlan HAY
Service No: 404617
Born: Maryborough QLD, 2 April 1914
Enlisted in the RAAF: 11 October 1940 (at Brisbane QLD)
Unit: No. 680 Squadron (RAF)
Died: Air Operations: (No. 680 Squadron Spitfire aircraft BR414), Turkey, 24 October 1943, Aged 29 Years
Buried: Haidar Pasha Cemetery, Turkey
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Walter Robert and Mary Ann Hay; husband of Eunice Joan Hay, of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia
Roll of Honour: Sydney NSW
Remembered: Panel 123, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
At 0700 hours on 24 October 1943, Spitfire BR414 took off from a Photo Reconnaissance detachment at Nicosia Cyprus, detailed to carry out a photographic reconnaissance of the Dodecanese Islands. The estimated time of arrival of the aircraft at base was 1200 hours and when the aircraft was overdue, an Air Sea Rescue search was carried out. The aircraft had crashed into a hill near Bodrum, Turkey, and Pilot Officer Hay had been killed.
References:
Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour On-Line Records (RAAF Casualty Information compiled by Alan Storr (409804))
Commonwealth War Graves Commission On-Line Records
Department of Veterans’ Affairs On-Line WWII Nominal Roll
National Archives of Australia On-Line Record A705, 166/17/351