Flying Officer, RAF
Born: June 9th 1918
Died: January 5th 1945
Age at Death: 26
Born in China on 9 June 1918 to Stanley, a diplomat serving in the country, and Mabel, in 1932 Peter returned to England to live in Hastings and attend the College. After leaving he joined a law firm as an articled clerk in Lewes, before enlisting with the RAF in 1938 and joining 263 Squadron, flying fighter planes. He served in Norway until the Allied withdrawal, during which he was wounded in the leg while aboard the SS Delius, which endured six gruelling hours of bombing and strafing by German planes.
Wyatt-Smith later fought in the Battle of Britain and the Mediterranean, and by 1945 was based back in England, flying the Mustang fighter bomber for 165 Squadron. On 5 January his plane stalled on take-off at RAF Aston Down in Gloucestershire, and he died in the ensuing crash. Peter left a widow, Helen, and is buried at Haycombe Cemetery in Somerset.