Roll of Honour

Roll of Honour

Gilchrist, Harry Bethune

Rank: Flight Lieutenant

Regiment: Royal Air Force

Biography: Son of W. J. Gilchrist, solicitor, Aberdeen ; born Aberdeen, 1917 ; educated at Aberdeen Grammar School. He became a Law Apprentice in the office of J. M. Clapperton, advocate, Aberdeen, and was studying Law at the University when the war broke out. An original member of No 612 Squadron, Auxiliary Air Force, he joined the Royal Air Force and saw much service in France before his death in this country in September 1941.

Date of Death: 2 September 1941

Burial Details: Buried at Aberdeen (Springbank) Cemetery, Sec. S. Grave 154

Publication: Roll of Remembrance. Published 1952.


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