Pilot Officer DN McCarthy
Denis Norman McCarthy
- Rank
- Pilot Officer
- School
- Diocesan College (Bishops)
- Fate
- Killed in a flying accident, 20 April 1941
From the book
The Dreaded Telegram
Denis Norman McCarthy and Anthony Ellerton Fry left Bishops in 1934. McCarthy’s post school activities are unknown. Fry, completed an Engineering degree at London University with Honours, a member of the University Air Squadron with PHV Wells and CW Goldsmith, he and Goldsmith were appointed Flying Officers in December 1939. Denis McCarthy commissioned as a “Pilot Officer on probation” on June 18th 1940, a few days before Flying Officer “Tony” Fry joined No 59 Squadron. Fry had flown more than 40 operational sorties when “The London Gazette” announced his and another former Bishops pupil Laurence Hull’s “Distinguished Flying Cross” awards on December 24th.
The Dreaded Telegram
Pilot Officer DN McCarthy, an “Elementary Flying Training School” instructor and his pupil lost their lives in a flying accident on April 20th. McCarthy’s wife and parents lived in England but news of his death had not reached his school contemporaries when William and Janetta Fry received a telegram at their Somerset West on April 30th advising their son Flight Lt Anthony Fry DFC had been posted “missing”.