Malcolm Alan Robert SUTHERLAND

Malcolm Alan Robert SUTHERLAND. Leading Aircraftman (Pilot U/T) Royal Air Force of No 6 Flying Training School, RAF Little Rissington, Gloucestershire. Born 1911 Douglas Alexander and Ellen Francis Sutherland, nee Fillan. 1911 his parents and sibling were residing at 229 Hatfield Road, St Albans, Hertfordshire. Killed in a flying accident at RAF Windrush, Gloucestershire 20 September 1940 aged 29.

At rest in St Peter Churchyard, Little Rissington, Gloucestershire.

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He lived in Wingreen Colehill, Wimborne, Dorset, the son of Mr and Mrs D Sutherland of Twickenham, London. He had been a stockbroker when he gained his Royal Aero Club certificate at the London Air Park flying Club flying a De Havilland Gipsy Moth on 22 October 1938. He was a pupil pilot, under Sergeant Toby Sturgis, of 6 FTS based at Little Rissington. They took off from there in Avro Anson Mk 1 N9821 and at 1430 were in collision with an Airspeed Oxford from 2 SFTS at RAF Brize Norton 3 miles South of Little Rissington. The Oxford which had taken off from RAF Windrush was piloted by Leading Aircraftman Benjamin High, on a blind flying exercise with the cockpit blacked out. Both aircraft crashed near Great Barrington, all 3 men being killed. Sergeant Howard is buried in Glynde, Sussex and LAC High in Milford Haven. Benjamin High was training for to be a bomber pilot and had one week to go before he had his wings.