The Airmen's Stories - F/Lt. D G Parnall

Denis Geach Parnall went to Clifton College and then Downing College, Cambridge where he read Mechanical Sciences. A member of the University Air Squadron, he was commissioned in the RAFO in December 1936 and transferred to the RAFVR in January 1938. He arrived at 5 OTU Aston down on 6th May 1940 and after converting to Hurricanes was posted to 249 Squadron at Leconfield on 28th May.

On 8th July Parnall shared a Ju88, on 15th August and 2nd September he claimed Me110’s destroyed and shared He111’s on on September 7th and 11th.

He was shot down and killed during a patrol over Gravesend on 18th September 1940. His Hurricane, V6685, crashed and burned out by the A12 road near Furness Farm, Furze Hill, Margretting, Essex.

Parnall was 25. He is buried in St Genesius' churchyard, St Gennys, Cornwall.