GRIFFITHS Walter Samuel Palfrey

  • First Name(s):
    Walter 
    Samuel 
    Palfrey 
  • Surname:
    GRIFFITHS
  • Service Number:
    61267
  • Rank:

    Pilot Officer/Pilot

  • Conflict:
    WW2
  • Service:
    Air Force
  • Air Force:
    Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
  • Air Force Unit:
    217 Squadron
  • Former Units:
    None
  • Date of Death:
    28th September 1941
  • Age At Death:
    21
  • Place of Death:
    Unknown
  • Place of Burial:
    La Gueriniere Communal Cemetery, France, Row 11. Grave 11.
  • Place of Birth:
    Unknown
  • Home Town:
    Unknown
  • Casualty's Relatives:

    Son of Benjamin Watson Griffiths and Margaret Edith Griffiths, of Builth Wells, Radnorshire

Remember The Fallen - Lest We Forget

GRIFFITHS Walter Samuel Palfrey Is Named On These Memorials

Bromsgrove School WW2 Memorial

Further Information About GRIFFITHS Walter Samuel Palfrey

Qualified in Jurisprudence for the degree of B.A. (Oxon.), Brasenose College.

Walter Griffiths was the pilot of a Beaufort I aircraft, registration W6501/D, which took off from RAF St Eval, Cornwall at 18.24 as part of a bombing raid on St Nazaire, France. The aircraft was brought down by enemy action in the vicinity of the target area. Of the four crew on board the aircraft, two of the bodies later washed ashore. No trace was found of the remaining two men, both of whom are commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial.

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