Surname | WILKERSON |
Forename(s) | DAVID SCOTT SHEARMAN |
Service Number | 62281 |
Rank | Squadron Leader |
Service | Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve |
Trade | Pilot |
Fate | Killed on active service |
Awards with 158 Squadron | |
Awards with another Squadron | DFC DSO |
Posted In | 1942-06-05 |
From Squadron | 35 CF |
Comments | Died: 16 September 1944 On 16/9/44 he was a passenger in a Martin Baltimore aircraft AG689 which took off from No. 61 Operational Training Unit, Rednal where he had been visiting and was now returning to Hullavington. The aircraft crashed, killing David Wilkerson. An enquiry later determined that ground crew, unfamiliar with the aircraft type had inadvertently damaged the flying controls. At the time of his death he had completed 46 operational sorties. |