Desmond Thomas Francis Hanrahan

Conflict:

WW2

Additional Information:

Son of Francis Joseph and Helen Hanrahan, of Ashburton, Canterbury.

References:

CWGC

NZ WAR GRAVES

Biographical Notes:

During a solo training flight in a Tiger Moth at Tieri, collided at 300ft with another of the school’s aircraft which had turned, preparing to land. At the time of the collision, the sun was low to the horizon and may have been directly in the sight of both pilots. The pilot and instructor in the other plane survived with injury.

[For Your Tomorrow, Errol Martyn, Volume 1, Page 108]

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Casualty

Service Number:

404869

Name:

Desmond Thomas Francis Hanrahan

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:

07 February 1941

Day of Death:

Friday

Age at Death:

Conflict:

WW2

Embarkation Details

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

Cemetery

Cemetery:

Ashburton Cemetery

Cemetery Reference:

3. 136.

Cemetery Location:

New Zealand