Lt PH Kleyn
Phillip Horatio Kleyn
DFM
- Rank
- Air/Sgt
- Later rank
- Lt
- Honours
- DFM
- Service no.
- 40875
- Squadron
- No 12 Squadron
- DFM
- Listed 30/01/1942
- Fate
- Killed in action
From the book
More than a “Few” South Africans
Three airmen never left the island, one succumbed to Malaria, the second died as a result of an accident while the third casualty Lt PH Kleyn DFM, a No 16 Squadron Maryland navigator the only airman killed in action during the “Madagascar Campaign” and, in the only aircraft lost because of enemy action, had been awarded the “Distinguished Flying Medal” earlier that year serving with the SAAF’s No 12 Squadron.