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Archive Report: Allied Forces

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RNZAF
1 SFTS Oxford II NZ1296 LAC Albert Maher

Operation: Training

Date: 21st June 1941 (Saturday)

Unit: No. 1 Service Flying Training School

Type: Oxford II

Serial: NZ1296

Code: -

Base: RNZAF Wigram

Location: Near Halswell

Pilot: LAC. Albert Maher NZ/405849 RNZAF Age 22. Killed

REASON FOR LOSS:

On a solo cross country training sortie. Took off from Wigram at 10:10hrs in NZ1296 Oxford II.

At 150 ft the port engine cut out and the port wing dropped as it dived into the ground near Haswell. Investigations showed that the port fuel tap had not been turned on.

Burial and personal details:

LAC. Albert Maher. Andersons Bay General Cemetery. Block 115, Plot 78. Born on the 23rd December 1918 in Dunedin. Educated at the Dunedin Technical College. A blacksmith for Joseph Sparrow in Dunedin Dunedin. Enlisted at Taien as an aircraft hand on the 16th December 1940. With Initial Training Wing 02nd March 1941. Remustered as a pilot under training on the 03rd March 1941. With No. 3 Elementary Flying Training School on the 13th of April 1941. No. 1 Initial Flying Training School on the 24th March 1941 for training on the Oxford. A total of 74 flying hours were logged with 31 solo and 11 on the Oxford.

Son of Michael Maher (died 05th August 1968, age 86), and of Susan Hannah Maher (née Johnston - died 28th November 1967, age 75), of 34 France Street, Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand.


Above L-R: Rear; Maher, Lusk, Harkness, Shaw, Saunders, Olson, Pearson, Shave, Moston, Rathbone, Gunn, Beca, McGechie.

Third row; MacAlister, Jenkinson, Collions, Kingsford, Woodward, J Wilson, Bromley, Sweeney, E Wilson, Tait, Cleland, White, Forrest, Doyle.

Second row; Allington, King, Clark, Earl, Kemp, Dixon, Boyd, Robyns, Walker, Ibbotson, Joyce, Craig, Cook, Higgott, Moncur.

Front; Banks, Anderson, Sheehan, Kennedy, McKenzie, Silcock, Green, Suckling, New, Rhodes, Morrison, Spinley, Leckie, Brown. (Courtsey Air Museum of New Zealand
)

Researched and dedicated to the relatives of this pilot thanks to the extensive research by Errol Martyn and his publications: “For Your Tomorrow Vols. 1-3”, Auckland Library Heritage Collection, Weekly News of New Zealand, Air Museum of New Zealand, Museum of Transport and Technology, Auckland, other sources as quoted below:

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