Flying Officer W Auld
Named in the book
- Rank
- Flying Officer
- Honours
- DFC
- Squadron
- No 51 Squadron
- Born
- 1910
- Fate
- Killed in a flying accident, 22 August 1944
From the book
The Dreaded Telegram
Thirty-four-year-old Flying Officer W Auld DFC arrived at the Central Navigation School in Shropshire on August 21st and lost his life on the 22nd during a night navigation exercise in a Wellington crash on a Welsh hillside. A qualified engineer, Auld was born in Vereeniging South Africa in 1910. Commissioned in 1942, the No 51 Squadron Halifax navigator was awarded the “Distinguished Flying Cross” in late 1943. He returned to the Squadron in 1944 after a flying school instructor posting in Canada and subsequently assigned for duty at the Central Navigation School. His parents William and Eleanor lived in the Vereeniging area.