Morris McIntyre Bee

Pilot Officer

Conflict:

WW2

Additional Information:

Son of Mr. and Mrs. F. G. Bee, of Putorino, Hawke's Bay.

References:

CWGC

NZ WAR GRAVES

Biographical Notes:

An aircraft of the Royal New Zealand Air Force engaged in night flying from a North Island station crashed into the sea at 8.30 p.m. yesterday. A member of the crew, Pilot Officer Morris Mclntyre Bee (father, Mr. F. G. Bee, care Mrs. W. A. Kennedy, Marine Parade, Wairoa), was drowned. The other two occupants, Sergeant D. A. Leslie (Gisborne) and Aircraftman A. N. Larkman (Wanganui), received injuries classified as not serious.

EVENING POST, VOLUME CXXXV, ISSUE 66, 19 MARCH 1943, PAGE 3

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Casualty

Service Number:

417004

Name:

Morris McIntyre Bee

Name variation:

Mack (Headstone)

Rank:

Pilot Officer

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:

18 March 1943

Day of Death:

Thursday

Age at Death:

Conflict:

WW2

Embarkation Details

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

Cemetery

Cemetery:

Eskdale Cemetery

Cemetery Reference:

137

Cemetery Location:

New Zealand