The Airmen's Stories -Sub/Lt. (FAA) G B Pudney
Geoffrey Bruce Pudney joined the Fleet Air arm in 1939 and was posted to 5OTU Aston Down on 23rd June 1940. Attachment to the RAF followed on the 29th and, after converting to Spitfires, he was attached to 64 Squadron at Kenley. 12th August 1940 saw him rejoining the FAA with a posting to 806 Squadron.
He was killed on 26th August 1941 when escorting a convoy to Tobruk, operating from HMS Grebe, a shore establishment at the pre-war Alexandria airport.
Pudney is commemorated on the FAA Memorial, Lee-on-Solent.
  
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