In Memory Of

MEIRING, IAN MURRAY

Service Details
Age:
 23
Date of Birth:
 -0001-11-30
Service No:
 205714V
Rank:
 Lieutenant
Unit:
 15 Sqdn.
Regiment:
 South African Air Force
Date of Death:
 1943-10-28
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, missing from sweep over Aegean, in Martin Baltimore Mk III #FA458
Commemoration
Grave Reference:
 Column 277.
Cemetery:
 ALAMEIN MEMORIAL
Country:
 Egypt
Additional Information
Son of John Murray Meiring and Florence Meiring, of Johannesburg, Transvaal, South Africa. His parents wrote a book called "On Service 1939-1945" to honour Ian and his fellow Grey College students who did not return. Commemoration stone in Bloenfontein (In Memoriam) Cemetery