The Airmen's Stories - F/O H Morgan-Gray
Hugh Morgan-Gray joined the RAF on a short service commission in December 1937. He was posted to 7 FTS Peterborough on 5th March 1938 and joined 29 Squadron at Debden on 17th September. In early July 1940 Morgan-Gray was with 46 Squadron at Digby.
On 3rd September his aircraft was set alight by return fire from a Do17 over Rochford and he baled out, wounded. His Hurricane, P3063, crashed at Apton Hall Farm, Canewdon.
Still with 46, Morgan-Gray was killed on 22nd February 1941 when his Hurricane I R4190 flew into the ground near Asterby in Lincolnshire.
He was 22 and is buried in Scopwick Church Burial Ground, Lincolnshire.
 
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