Hugh Etienne

Flying Officer Hugh Terence Etienne was a St. Lucian airman of the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve who died during the Second World War.
He was born the son of Auguste and Rosetta Etienne, of Castries, and was a civil servant before the war.Hugh Terrence S. Etienne, caribbeanaircrew-ww2.com. Retrieved 17 September 2015. Etienne was commissioned on 1 September 1942,The London Gazette (35731), p. 4346. 6 October 1942, thegazette.co.uk. Retrieved 17 September 2015. and at the time of his death was serving as a flight engineer with 214 Squadron.Phillips, J. Alwyn (1992), The valley of the shadow of death: an account of the Royal Air Force Bomber Command night bombing and minelaying operations including "The Battle of the Ruhr" March 5th/6th to July 18th/19, 1943, p. 54.
Aged 21, Etienne died on 5 March 1943, when his Short Stirling (serial BK662) was hit by flak and crashed off the coast of IJmuiden, in the Netherlands. There were no survivors from the bomber, which had been engaged on an operation against the German city of Essen.Chorley, W.R. (1996), Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War: Aircraft and crew losses: 1943, p. 67.
He has no known grave and is commemorated by the Runnymede Memorial.
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==References==
*Etienne, Hugh Terence, cwgc.org. Retrieved 17 September 2015.
Category:Birth Date Unknown
Category:1943 deaths
Category:St. Lucian military personnel
Category:Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Category:Burial Unknown
Category:Runnymede Memorial
Category:Flying Officers