South Africans in the RAF

Pilot Officer AA Greenberg

Albert Aaron Greenberg

Named in the book
Rank
Pilot Officer
Squadron
No 224 Squadron
School
King Edward VII School
Fate
Killed in a flying accident, 3 March 1940

From the book

The Dreaded Telegram

Pilot Officer A Greenberg, one of the 22, was killed during flying training on March 3rd, 1940, when engine failure caused his No 224 Squadron Hudson to crash. The first of 49 South Africans serving in the RAF who lost their lives during 1940, Albert Aaron Greenberg, a contemporary of Norman Lewis’s at King Edwards was confirmed as a Pilot Officer in the December 28th “London Gazette” in a list including Peter Grenfell Dexter, Pieter Hendrik Hugo and Basil Gerald Stapleton.

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