My great grandfather's story

   Lloyd  Trigg
Lloyd Allan Trigg was the son of Arthur and Cecelia Trigg,

he was born on May 5 1914  (12 weeks before W.W.I.) in Houhora Northland. He was educated at Whangarei Boys High School.

He served in the Royal New Zealand Air Force as a bomber pilot. He completed 46 missions but died on his 47th on the 11th of August 1943 aged 29.

His job was to search for enemy U Boats and after looking for
eight hours he sighted a surfaced U Boat, he immediately
went in for the attack but during his approach he
was hit by anti aircraft guns from the U Boat.
 His tail caught fire and the sensible thing to have
done would have been to ditched into the sea, ensuring survival.
Lloyd continued with his attack, even taking more fire
through his open bomb doors. He managed to keep flying
and got within 50 metres of the U Boat and deployed his bombs
before crashing into the sea.  The U Boat sank and its surviving
crew were later picked up, they were the only witnesses
to the attack, they later told the story to the officers and based on
their account, Lloyd’s widow was presented with the Victoria Cross
on 29th October 1943. Since his body was never recovered he was
commemorated at the Malta Memorial.