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Pilot Officer BEAUPERT, RENE HAROLD Royal Indian Air Force |
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BEAUPERT, RENE HAROLD Initials: R H Nationality: Indian Rank: Pilot Officer Regiment: Royal Indian Air Force Unit Text: 6 Sqdn. Age: 22 Date of Death: 18/03/1947 Service No: IND/3293 Additional information: Son of Mr. and Mrs. George Edward Beaupert, of Calcutta, India. Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead Grave/Memorial Reference: 3. J. 10. Cemetery: RANCHI WAR CEMETERY
The following information comes from "Spitfire International" by Helmut Terbeck.
16-Jan-47, as Pilot Officer - Flying Spitfire XIVe (NH873) from Ambala - Advanced Flying School (India). There was a tyre burst on take off. Pilot Belly landed ac back at airfield. Aircraft was written off. and two months later.... 18-Mar-47 Pilot Officer with No.6 Squadron. While flying Spitfire XIVe (TZ104) on a recce sortie near Palamau, Bihar, Engine cut. Beauport baled out but struck the wing (maybe the tail) and chute did not open killing him. Our thanks to Jagan Pillarisetti, for the above information.
Warren O'Rourke writes..... Beaupert was in school with me, somewhat Junior. He was good at games and I believe went on to play in VS 1st XI's. All who were in school with Renee were saddened at his untimely death and the manner of it. Renee's pal at school was a chap named Nelson. He was called "Flash" on account of his very slow walk. Actually he was one of the best sprinters in the school. That "gang" was associated, if I remember correctly, with Sealdah (Kolkata). The following is an extract from an email received by me from a vsdh Lister whose identity I have withheld out of modesty for the writer, she is obviously, an "Old Lady" of Dow Hill. "I
too remember Renee Beaupert well. He was a little older Rene Beaupert appears in a photograph on this web page :- Click here
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