South Africans in the RAF

IM Meiring

Ian Murray Meiring

Named in the book
School
Grey College
Fate
Killed in action

From the book

The Dreaded Telegram

The Grey College masters’ words masked the family anguish. Their son, Ian Murray Meiring interrupted his architectural studies to volunteer lost his life during a flying Baltimore a shipping strike in October 1943. Two years later, the Meiring family published a “Register” in his memory, recording the names of 258 RAF, RAFVR and SAAF airmen educated at Grey College in Bloemfontein.

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