Wing Commander John Gordon HALLIDAY (1933)

59 Squadron RAF Volunteer Reserve
Born 4 July 1915 in Cockermouth, Cumberland
Killed 3 December 1945, aged 30
Buried at Rochefort-Sur-Mer Naval Cemetery, France.

John Halliday was the son of John Halliday and Ann Elizabeth, née Gordon, of Oxford. He married Frances Mary, née Furneaux, in 1940.

He was educated at the City of Oxford School. He came up to Merton with a Postmastership. A keen cricketer, he played for the University and captained Oxfordshire in 1938.

He was a passenger on board a B-24 Liberator GR. VIII returning to the UK from the Middle East on 3 December 1945, when it lost a wing and crashed near Rochefort in France, killing all 28 on board.