RNZAF Biographies of Deceased Personnel: 1939 - 1945, Ma - McW

All members of the crew were killed and (was having been killed and) were buried by the Japanese.

The other members of the crew were F/O N.H. Benton (Pilot), F/Sgt. J.N. Conneen (Nav.), F/Sgt. R.H. McF. Buchanan (W.O.A.G.), F/Sgt. C.C.W. Jeffares (A.G.)

5/2/18737 A.S.2. 427 hours as Air Gunner.

Mrs. W.A. Mallett (M) (right aligned) Bayly Street, (right aligned) Waitara, TARANAKI (right aligned & town underlined)

413101 Pilot Officer David Lindsay MALLOCH (surname underlined) Parents: Mr. and Mrs. D. Malloch of Waikouaniti.

David Malloch was born at Dunedin on the 4th January 1921. His secondary education was received at Waitaki Boys' High School where he passed the matriculation examination and gained a Higher Leaving Certificate. The sports in which he took part were football, tennis, cricket, athletics and ski-ing. His civilian occupation was that of a bank officer in the Bank of New Zealand at Palmerston, Otago, and he was so employed when in September 1940 he applied for war service in the R.N.Z.A.F.

Pilot Officer Malloch was enlisted for aircrew training on the 25th May 1941 at the Initial Training Wing, Levin, and was posted on the 5th July to No. 1 Elementary Flying Training School, Taieri, to commence his flying training. On the 4th September he embarked for Canada to continue his training under the Empire Air Training Scheme.

Shortly after his arrival in Canada, Pilot Officer Malloch was posted on the 1st October to No. 6 Service Flying Training School, Dunnville, Ontario. While here, on the 31st December 1941 he was awarded his flying badge. He was promoted to Sergeant on the 2nd January 1942 although this was superseded by his being commissioned as a Pilot Officer with effect from the same date. On the 11th January 1941 he proceeded to No. 3 'Y' Depot, Debert, Nova Scotia, to await embarkation to the United Kingdom.

Having arrived in England, Pilot Officer Malloch was held at No. 3 Personnel Reception Centre, Bournemouth, until posted on the 17th February 1942 to No. 41 Operational Training Unit, Old Sarum, Wiltshire. He proceeded on the 24th April 1942 to No. 1 Coast Artillery Co-operation Unit, then at Bodorgan, Angelsey and later at Weston Zoyland, Somerset, and Detling, Kent.

On the 23rd June 1942 while engaged on a cross-country flight. Pilot Officer Malloch crashed near Meopham, Kent, losing his life. He was buried on the 26th June in the cemetery at Maidstone, Kent.

5/2/6867 A.S.2. 268 hours as pilot.

Mr D. Malloch (F), (right aligned) Bendoran, (right aligned) Waikouaiti (right aligned) DUNEDIN (underlined & right aligned)

RAF. 42719 : Pilot Officer John Charles MALLON (surname underlined) Parents : Mr. & Mrs. A. MALLON of NEW PLYMOUTH (surname & town underlined)

John Mallon was born at Inglewood on the 14th September 1916 and received his secondary education at New Plymouth Boy's High School attaining matriculation standard. The games he played were cricket, tennis and football. His civilian occupation was that of a motor engineer in the employ of Messrs. A.D. McNeil & Co., New Plymouth. In February 1938 he applied for enrolment in the Civil Reserve of Pilots and on being accepted was assigned to the Western Federated Flying Club, New Plymouth, for training. During the course of this training he was successful in gaining his "A" Flying License. He then applied for a Short Service Commission in the Royal Air Force and on being provisionally selected, embarked on the "Rotorua" at Auckland on the 15th June 1939 to proceed to the United Kingdom.

On arriving in England he reported to Air Ministry where he was confirmed in his appointment to a Short Service Commission as a pilot officer (redacted for four years from the 24th July 1939 he was instructed to) he proceeded (redacted on that day) to No. 8 Elementary and Reserve Flying Training School, Reading, Berkshire, for his (redacted This) preliminary flying training (redacted completed) (redacted he) was posted on the 18th September, 1939 to No. 3 Initial Training Wing, Hastings, for a short course in service procedure. Then on the 8th October his flying training was continued by his being posted to No. 10 Flying Training School, Tern Hill, Shropshire. Here, on the 1st December 1939 he was awarded his flying badge. At the conclusion of his course he was posted on the 7th April, 1940 to No. 2 School of Army Co-operation, Old Sarum, Wiltshire. Early in May 1940, however, he proceeded to France on posting to No. 53 Squadron, part of the Advnaced Air (redacted Stirling) Striking Force attached to the British Expeditionary Force. With this squadron from bases in France and from Lympne, Kent where the squadron moved on the 19th May he took part in forty-three operational flights comprising an attack on an enemy airfield in France, nine armed reconnaissance flights, twelve North Sea patrols, two shipping strikes, attacks on Le Havre, Dreux, Boulogne (3), Calais and Cherbourg in France, Bruges, Ostend (2), and Zeebrugge in Belgium; Ghent (2), Flushing (2) Vlaardingen, Rotterdam and Helder in Holland and Emden (2), in Germany.

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From the second of the shipping strikes undertaken on the 8th October, 1940 against shipping at Gravelines, France, his aircraft failed to return to its base and all its crew was classified as missing. Later, information was received through the International Red Cross that Pilot Officer Mallon was a prisoner of war and wounded, but later still the International Red Cross reported that he had died of wounds and had been buried in Guines Cemetery ten miles south of Calais, France. No further news was received and after due time had elapsed his death was officially presumed to have occurred on the 11th October, 1940 as a result of air operations.

18/1/992 A.S.2. 382 hours as pilot.

Mrs. D.C. MALLON (M), (right aligned) Bell Block, (right aligned) NEW PLYMOUTH (underlined & right aligned)