Flight Lt RO Day
Robert Ogilvie Day
Named in the book
- Rank
- Flight Lt
- Honours
- DFC
- Squadron
- No 139 Squadron
- School
- King Edward VII School
- Fate
- Killed in action
- In the book
- Pages 151
Stories that mention him
- South Africans overlooked at the Bomber Command MemorialSpirits in the Sky
From the book
Spirits in the Sky
55 573 of 125 000 Bomber Command aircrew lost their lives, 9 838 became “POW’s” and 8 403 were wounded. At least 300 South Africans served as Bomber Command airmen an estimated 176 of whom lost their lives. No 9 Squadron Wellington pilot, Pilot Officer Harold Rosofsky the first to lose his life and the last, No 139 Squadron Pathfinder Mosquito pilot, 23-year-old Flight Lt Robert Ogilvie Day DFC, were coincidently educated at King Edwards in Johannesburg and frame names like Begbie, Bartholomew, Deas, Goodman, Hamman, Hirschfield, Howe-Brown, Lourens, McKendry, McGregor, Wing Commander JD Nettleton VC and Major Edwin Swales VC DFC.