Lyneham Lad
28th Apr 2021, 09:55
In The Times
Air Marshal Sir Roy Austen-Smith obituary (https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/4c323918-a77d-11eb-b000-cc13f23b4eff?shareToken=fc673cf4e7b5d5d0006f6e94e298b876)
Lengthy obit plus photos. RIP.
Austen-Smith was awarded the DFC for “gallantry and devotion to duty on operations in Malaya”, where he was a flight commander with No 33 Squadron, based at RAF Butterworth near Penang. He flew single-engine Tempest Mk II fighters and then twin-engine Hornets, attacking communist targets in support of British ground troops such as the Gordon Highlanders, Manchesters and West Kents, who were confronting the Malayan rebels at that time.
Air Marshal Sir Roy Austen-Smith obituary (https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/4c323918-a77d-11eb-b000-cc13f23b4eff?shareToken=fc673cf4e7b5d5d0006f6e94e298b876)
Lengthy obit plus photos. RIP.
Austen-Smith was awarded the DFC for “gallantry and devotion to duty on operations in Malaya”, where he was a flight commander with No 33 Squadron, based at RAF Butterworth near Penang. He flew single-engine Tempest Mk II fighters and then twin-engine Hornets, attacking communist targets in support of British ground troops such as the Gordon Highlanders, Manchesters and West Kents, who were confronting the Malayan rebels at that time.