Flight Lt CAG Clark
Colin Anthony Gordon Clark
Battle of Britain
- Rank
- Pilot Officer
- Later rank
- Flight Lt
- Squadron
- No 137 Squadron
- School
- King Edward VII School
- Fate
- Did not survive the war
- In the book
- Pages 51, 57, 87
From the book
Against Unfavourable Odds
Blenheim pilots, King Edward’s School contemporaries Flight Lt Colin Clark and Pilot Officer Richard Haviland are listed as being entitled to the “Battle of Britain” clasp. Commissioned four months before the war, Colin Anthony Gordon Clark flew “Fighter Interception Unit” Blenheim’s during the “Battle of Britain”. He lost his life crashing a No 137 Squadron Whirlwind into the sea during a sortie in October 1941 8.
More than a “Few” South Africans
Turned down by the SAAF, Johannes Jacobus Le Roux commissioned in 1939 with two other South Africans, Colin Anthony Gordon Clark and James Henry Steyn. Clark flew No 266 Squadron Spitfires, Steyn, No 10 Squadron Whitleys.