KHAN Mehdi M

  • First Name(s):
    Mehdi 
    M 
  • Surname:
    KHAN
  • Service Number:
    68746
  • Rank:

    Pilot Officer

  • Conflict:
    WW2
  • Service:
    Air Force
  • Air Force:
    Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
  • Air Force Unit:
    86 Squadron
  • Former Units:
    None
  • Date of Death:
    2nd February 1942
  • Age At Death:
    20
  • Place of Death:
    Unknown
  • Place of Burial:
    Commemorated on Runnymede Memorial, Surrey, England, Panel 70.
  • Place of Birth:
    Unknown
  • Home Town:
    Unknown
  • Casualty's Relatives:

    Son of the Hon. Mr Justice Mirza A.A. Khan, and of Gertrude Harriet Mirza Khan, of Headington, Oxford

Remember The Fallen - Lest We Forget

KHAN Mehdi M Is Named On These Memorials

Malvern College WW2 Memorial

Further Information About KHAN Mehdi M

Foundation Scholar St Pauls School, London; Manson Scholar, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.

Mehdi Khan was born in 1921. He attended Malvern College from 1933 to 1934.

During the Second World War 86 Squadron served with Coastal Command, moving to St Eval in Cornwall in early 1942. On 2nd February 1942, Mehdi Khan was flying Beaufort serial no AW253 on an anti-shipping mission when the aircraft was hit by anti-aircraft fire and crashed into the sea off the coast of France with the loss of all crew.

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