Maj Kenneth Weeks Driver

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Maj Kenneth Weeks Driver

Birthdate:
Birthplace: South Africa
Death: March 02, 1947 (28)
Hullavington, Wiltshire, UK (Died in a plane crash during a training exercise)
Place of Burial: Haycombe Drive, Bath, Bath and North East Somerset, England, BA2, United Kingdom
Immediate Family:

Son of Arthur Driver and Minnie Florence Weeks
Husband of Margaret Amalie Nyman (Driver)
Brother of Dorothy Anne Armstrong; Edgar Haddon Driver; Walter Driver; William Gall Driver and Hubert Weeks Driver

Occupation: Major in the SAAF
Managed by: Private User
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About Maj Kenneth Weeks Driver

Was awarded the DFC in the Second World War flying for the South African Airforce. The DFC was awarded for shooting 11 enemy aircraft. He also rammed his aircraft into an enemy aircraft when he ran out of ammunition and parachuted to safety. Was a prisoner of war in Germany since 14th June 1941.He died flying RAF aircraft back to Britain after the war where his rank was that of Major.


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Maj Kenneth Weeks Driver's Timeline

1918
April 3, 1918
South Africa
1947
March 2, 1947
Age 28
Hullavington, Wiltshire, UK
1947
Age 28
Cemetery, Haycombe Drive, Bath, Bath and North East Somerset, England, BA2, United Kingdom

Plot 39. Sec. H. Row F. Grave 258.