Flying Officer

Jack Rua Coath

Conflict: 
WW2
Additional Information: 

Son of Walter Lang Coath and Nessie Coath, of Auckland City; husband of Frances Shaw Coath, of Dillon's Point, Blenheim.

References:
  • CWGC
NZ WAR GRAVES

Biographical Notes:

While doing an aerobatic display at Bell Block with a pupil and another aircraft from the school, Jack performed a downwind climbing turn, stalled and spun into the ground. His pupil escaped with minor injury.

[For Your Tomorrow, Errol Martyn, Volume 1, Page 148]

 

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Casualty

Service Number: 
40819
Name:
Jack Rua Coath
Rank: 
Flying 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:
12 October 1941
Day of Death:
Sunday
Age at Death: 
32
Conflict: 
WW2

Embarkation Details

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

Cemetery

Cemetery Reference: 
9. 5. 1.
Cemetery Location: 
New Zealand
Jack Rua Coath
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