Pilot Officer RH Haviland
Richard Haviland
- Rank
- Pilot Officer
- Squadron
- No 248 Squadron
- School
- King Edward VII School, University of the Witwatersrand
- Fate
- Did not survive the war, 28 August 1940
- In the book
- Pages 51, 57
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.
Against Unfavourable Odds
Haviland studied engineering at the University of Witwatersrand, had a private pilot’s licence and joined the RAFVR in 1937. Called up two days before war was declared, he flew No 248 Squadron Blenheim’s out of RAF Sumburgh in the Shetland Islands, survived a close call running out fuel and ditching after a sortie on August 7th but lost his life flying aerobatics in a Squadron Magister on August 28th,1940 9.