LEST WE FORGET
Pilot Officer Percival Martin SLOAN
Service No: 400158
Born: Melbourne VIC, 9 November 1917
Enlisted in the RAAF: 23 June 1940
Unit: No. 57 Operational Training Unit (RAF)
Died: Aircraft Accident (No. 57 Operational Unit Spitfire aircraft X4421), Flint, 27 March 1941, Aged 23 Years
Buried: Hawarden (St Deiniol) Churchyard, Flintshire
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Thomas Andrew and Jane Maltilda Sloan, of Essendon, Victoria, Australia
Roll of Honour: Unknown
Remembered: Panel 130, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
On 27 March 1941, Pilot Officer Sloan was killed at Flint when Spitfire X4421 came out of cloud at high speed at too low an altitude and broke up during the attempted recovery.
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 A9300, SLOAN P M