Name
Derrick Joseph Oswald Pyne
Conflict
Second World War
Date of Death / Age
05/11/1943
23
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Flight Lieutenant
114477
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
Ottawa Memorial
Panel 2. Column 2.
Canada
Headstone Inscription
NA
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Hitchin memorials
Biography
His Service Number was 114477.
The circumstances of his death are not known but many such casualties were the result of flying training accidents.
He is remembered on Panel 2, Column 2 of the Ottawa Memorial in Canada.
He was the son of Flight Lieutenant George Henry Ernest and Mary Delia Pyne of Hitchin. His brother Thomas Basil George Pyne also died on service.
Acknowledgments
David C Baines – ‘Hitchin’s Century of Sacrifice’
