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Name Lloyd Allan Trigg No. POSTHUMOUS
VC Issue No. 1245 Awards VC DFC
Regiment Royal New Zealand Airforce attached to No. 200 Squadron, Royal Air Force
Later
Now
Rank VC Won Flying Officer
Rank End Of Career Flying Officer
Place Of Birth Houhora, North Auckland, North Island, New Zealand
Place Of Death 240 miles south west of Dakar, Senegal, West Africa
Buried/Location Ashes Crashed at sea 240 miles south-west of Dakar, Senegal, West Africa, Atlantic Ocean
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated
Headstone Headstone Plot/Grave no.
Gazetted 2 November 1943
VC Presented 28 May 1944, Governor-General of New Zealand, Sir C Newall, New Zealand
Memorials
P Named on RAF Memorial, Valetta, Malta
Named on War Meorial, Houhora, NI, New Zealnd
Named on War Memorial, Remembrance Park, Kaitaia, NI, New Zealand
Named on War Memorial, Taipa, Mangonui District, NI, New Zealand
Named on War Memorial, Whangarei District War Memorial, Lauri Hall Park, Whangarei, NI, New Zealand
Named on War Memorial, Whangarei Boys High School, Whangarei, NI, New Zealand
Memorial at Returned Servicemans Association HQ, Dunedin, New Zealand
P Named on VC RAF Memorial at St Clement Dane's Church, Aldwych, London
P Named on Victoria Cross Memorial, Queens Gardens, Dunedin, New Zealand
Trigg Road, Huapai, Kumeu, NI, New Zealand
By The Way…
Awarded the VC on the statements of several survivors from the German U-boat that he had destroyed
VC Held By
Lord Ashcroft Collection/I.W.M.
BORN 6 June 1914
DIED 11 August 1943 AGE 29
VC Won 11 August 1943 AGE 29
Place VC Won Atlantic Ocean, off West Africa
War/Campaign Second World War
