Richard Langton Leith-Hay-Clark
Person details
| Forename(s) | Richard Langton |
|---|---|
| Surname | Leith-Hay-Clark |
| Rank | Pilot Officer |
| Regiment | RAFVR |
| Age | 25 |
| Death | Missing, presumed killed in action |
| Place of Death | Western Europe > France |
| Date of Death | 19/09/1942 |
| Year of Entry | 1930 |
| House Letter | B |
| School Notes | - |
| Comments |
Son of Major N. Leith-Hay-Clark, OR, and elder brother of DM Leith-Hay-Clark War record of 35 Squadron http://www.raf.mod.uk/history/35squadron.cfm http://www.historyofwar.org/air/units/RAF/35_wwII.html |
| Commonwealth War Graves Commission Link | https://www.cwgc.org/find-record... |
| Unit | 35 Squadron |
| Prefect | - |
| Military Decorations | |
| Album Number | 21 |
| Battle | |
| Previous Regiment | |
| Burial or Cemetery | France > Choloy, Moselle |
| Citations | |
| Archives | Correspondence file in OR files in Radley Archives |
| Post School | Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester; Land agent |
| Prep School | Holmwood House |
| Prisoner of War | |
| Radlein Obituary |
June 13 1943. Recorded on the Roll of Honour June 18 1944. Missing on 19th Sept., I942, and now presumed killed. Richard Langton Leith-Hay-Clark (Nugee's, B, 1930~1933). Pilot Officer, R.A.F.V.R. Also, killed in action on 27th Jan., I944. Donald Massingberd Leith-Hay-Clark (Nugee's, B, 1933-36), Flight Lieut., RA.F. They were the sons of Major N. Leith-Hay-Clark, O.R. The elder one went to Cirencester Agricultural College in order to become a Land Agent. He joined the R.A.F.V.R and became an enthusiastic airman. He was at Radley not long before he was posted missing and it was good to see how all his keenness, and he always had much, was now for the service he had joined. The younger one went to Sandhurst and joined the Lincolnshire Regt. He was in India for the first two years of the war, out finding that was too dull he came home and was transferred to the R.A.F. Both these boys had a real spirit of enterprise, the stuff of which fighting men are made; they were the kind who would fight their machines to the end. Our very real sympathy goes to their parents in the loss of both their sons so soon after each other. |
| Service Number | 126897 |
| Place of Birth |
