South Africans in the RAF

Lt TV Drew

Named in the book
Rank
Lt
Squadron
No 183 Squadron
1943 voyage
Sailed from Cape Town on the Rangitata in September 1943, and signed the group photograph taken in Montevideo on the way. The signed Montevideo photograph of the SAAF pilots The story of the photograph
In the book
Pages 153

From the book

A Journey of Discovery

No 183 Squadron’s “Operations Record Book” lists that as the first of four sorties flown that day and identifies Lt TV Drew and Captain LPT Eagar were involved in that sortie. Five others on the squadron, Lt EW Bodley, Lt BE Goodman, Lt AG Hill, Captain A Lens and Captain TA Meek flew sorties that day. The seven, sailed from Cape Town on the “Rangitata” and had signed the photograph mounting. Lens and Hill lost their lives on February 22nd 1945.

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