Michael Alan Newling

Flight Lieutenant · 41867 · United Kingdom

Died

6 July 1941

Fate

Killed in action

Biography

Burial / commemoration

Cemetery

Runnymede Memorial, United Kingdom

Timeline

• 4 February 1941 Gazetted: DFC
  Distinguished Flying Cross
• 6 July 1941 Died

Awards

• Distinguished Flying Cross (DFC) — gazetted 4 February 1941

  This officer has been continuously engaged in active operations since May. 1940, and has at all times displayed marked courage and leadership. On one occasion during an attack against a large force of enemy bombers, he was shot down into enemy territory, but with great determination succeeded in gaining his own lines. Flight Lieutenant Newling has destroyed at least three enemy aircraft and assisted in the destruction of several more. Acting Flight Lieutenant Thomas SMART.

Source: CWGC casualty record: NEWLING, MICHAEL ALAN → · Commonwealth War Graves Commission