Pilot Officer George Clinton SMYTHE (115770)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

Date of birth: 13th February 1923
Date of death: 17th June 1942

Killed on active service aged 19
Buried at Maidstone Cemetery Plot C C 1 Grave 88
He was born at Maidstone on the 13th of February 1923, the youngest son of Bernard Algernon Smythe, timber importer, and Enid Mary (nee Stirwell) of 47 Lower Mount Road, Maidstone, Kent.

He was educated at Normandale, Bexhill, and at the King's School Canterbury from January 1937 to July 1939, where he was in School House and was a Heyman Scholar.

He left school on the outbreak of war to help in his father's business.

He joined the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve and rose to the rank Sergeant before being commissioned as a Pilot Officer on the 29th of January 1942. At the time of his death was acting as an instructor.

On the 17th of June 1942, George Smythe was driving in his car when he attempted to pass another vehicle on a bend in the road at Goose Green Farm near Maidstone, Kent. The car crashed and he was fatally injured.
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