John Hunter Coghlan

Flying Officer · 37719 · United Kingdom

Died

17 August 1940, aged 25

Fate

Killed in action

Biography

Burial / commemoration

Cemetery

Boulogne Eastern Cemetery, France

Timeline

• 30 July 1940 Gazetted: DFC
  Distinguished Flying Cross
• 17 August 1940 Died
  aged 25

Awards

• Distinguished Flying Cross (DFC) — gazetted 30 July 1940

  This officer has been a flight commander in his squadron on most of the recent patrols and has led the squadron on some occasions. At all times he has shown the greatest initiative and courage and has personally destroyed at least six enemy aircraft. Flying Officer Anthony Douglas FORSTER.

Source: CWGC casualty record: COGHLAN, JOHN HUNTER → · Commonwealth War Graves Commission