Malcolm - Bio

Name:
BARRIBALL, Malcolm Eber Palmer

Nationality:
New Zealand

Regiment/Service:
Royal New Zealand Air Force

Rank/ Trade:
Pilot Officer/ Pilot

Service No.:
NZ42358

Unit Text:
487 Squadron

Date of Birth:
ca 1921 - Auckland, New Zealand

Date of Death:
March 13, 1944 - Mosquito VI (HX857)

Memorial Reference:
Runnymede Memorial - Surrey, England

Name of Father:
BARRIBALL, Samuel Eber (of Waiuku, Auckland, New Zealand)

Name of Mother:
Florence Susan

P/O Barriball studied at Canterbury Agricultural College after leaving King's College. He was a pupil at King's (School House) from 1936-1937.

SOURCE: Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database.

P/O Barriball "was a member of the crew of a Mosquito aircraft, which was damaged by anti-aircraft fire over enemy territory. The pilot endeavored to make a forced landing on the sea about 30 miles from the enemy coast. The attempt was unsuccessful, and the aircraft was observed to break up on impact with the water. Nothing was seen of the crew."

SOURCE: Correspondence File (RAAF 166/33/140) of P/O D.A. Priddle (copy in the archive holdings of "Pennfield Parish Military Historical Society").