Looking for Neville Hamilton WW2 Spitfire Pilot
I hope someone can help me in tracing a Spitfire pilot who served in WW2. It is on behalf of my elderly aunt who served in the WRENS. I hope to discover is the former SAAF pilot is still alive and his whereabouts if possible.
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> This is the limited information I have:
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> -His name is Neville Hamilton.
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> -He lived in Bulawayo but served in the South African Air Force.
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> -Steve McLean, the author of the book The Spitfire in SAAF Service, says Neville Hamilton spent time at 70 OTU in 1944 and was then posted to 7 Squadron around March 1945. His name doesn’t appear on the Roll of Honour so it is presumed he survived the war.
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> -He may have flown from Ysterplaat outside Cape Town in the late 1950s with 22 squadron.
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> Any information you can give me would be greatly appreciated.
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> Many thanks.
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> Jacqui