Pirie, David Leslie
Personal Information
Rank | P/O |
Forename(s) | David Leslie |
Surname | Pirie |
Gender | M |
Age | |
Decorations | |
Date of Death | 24-12-1943 |
Next of Kin |
Aircraft Information
Aircraft | Avro Lancaster II |
Serial Number | DS773 |
Markings | KO-T |
Memorial Information
Burial/Memorial Country | Germany |
Burial/Memorial Place | Berlin 1939-1945 War Cemetery |
Grave Reference | 7. F. 5. |
Epitaph |
IBCC Memorial Information
Phase | 2 |
Panel Number | 226 |
Enlistment Information
Service Number | 53097 |
Service | Royal Air Force |
Group | 3 |
Squadron | 115 |
Trade | Pilot |
Country of Origin | United Kingdom |
Other Memorials
Location | Lancaster Industrial Estate, Witchford, Cambridgeshire |
Country | United Kingdom |
Memorial Type | Stone Pillar with inscribed Slate Tablets & Metal Plaques |
Memorial Text | In honour of those who served during the Second World War 1939 - 1945 |
Miscellaneous Information
Initially buried in Friedhof Doeberitz-Elsgrund Cemetery Plot 2 Row12 Grave 11. Reinterred 6 December 1946. |
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
The National Archives
Record of Events (Operational Record Book) AIR 27/890/24 |
Summary of Events (Operational Record Book) AIR 27/890/23 |
Fellow Servicemen
Last Operation Information
Start Date | 23-12-1943 |
End Date | 24-12-1943 |
Takeoff Station | Witchford |
Day/Night Raid | Night (13% moon) |
Operation | Berlin. 379 aircraft, 16 Lancasters Lost (4.2%). Fewer night-fighters were encountered than in recent raids on Berlin, partly due to a successful diversionary raid by Mosquitoes on Leipzig. The target was cloud covered and more than half of the initial wave of PFF aircraft had difficulties with their H2S sets and a result, marking was scattered. The south-eastern suburbs sustained light damage only. |
Reason for Loss | Shot down by a night-fighter flown by Ofw. Kurt Emler of 1./JG302 over Berlin at 04:20 (no altitude given). |