Keith Edwin Hodge

Conflict: 
WW2
Additional Information: 

Husband of Jean Marie Hodge, of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

References:
  • CWGC
NZ WAR GRAVES

Biographical Notes:

Taking off from Wigram on ‘steep turns and single engine’ exercises, 35 minutes apart,  the two Oxford aircraft, one flown by Keith Hodge and the other by Stuart Pettitt collided 3000ft above Halswell, when both aircraft executed turns without sufficient vertical separation.

 

[For Your Tomorrow, Errol Martyn, Volume 2, Page 262]

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Casualty

Service Number: 
4312233
Name:
Keith Edwin Hodge
Date of Birth:
Not known
Date of Enlistment:
Not known
Unit:
Royal New Zealand Air Force

Casualty Details

Cause of Death:
Killed in an aircraft accident
Date of Death:
14 August 1944
Day of Death:
Monday
Age at Death: 
26
Conflict: 
WW2

Embarkation Details

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

Cemetery

Cemetery: 
Cemetery Reference: 
99. 71B.
Cemetery Location: 
New Zealand
Keith Edwin Hodge
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