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W.A. MIDDLETON.
2. (centre aligned)
Driffield, Yorkshire, and later at Leconfield, Yorkshire, and Redhill, Surrey, he took part in a further 17 operational flights, consisting of raid investigations and convoy patrol flights, also cover to aircraft attacking enemy shipping. On the 4th May, 1941, F/O Middleton was the pilot of a Spitfire aircraft which collided with another aircraft on the take off for a night operational flight. He was injured and admitted to the York Military Hospital. On his recovery he returned on the 23rd August to his squadron stationed at Leconfield.

On the 27th August, 1941, F/O Middleton was the pilot of a Spitfire aircraft which took off on a fighter sweep over enemy occupied France and failed to return to its base. He was classified as missing. There was no further news received and in due course his death was officially presumed to have occurred on the 27th August 1941. A post war report received through the Missing Research and Enquiry Service revealed that he was buried in the Dunkirk Communal Cemetery, Dunkirk, France.

Find a Grave link with photos of deceased: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/56270710/william-arthur-middleton

4/2/1516 AS2.
370 hrs. as pilot.

Mrs. J.C.M. Middleton (M) (right aligned)
C/o Mr. A.H. Hornblow, (right aligned)
P.O. Box 20, WELLINGTON. (right aligned & city underlined)