Joseph volunteered for the RAF and was called-up in 1941, completing his initial training in the UK. In April 1942 he was posted to the USA to continue training where he remained until early 1943.

On Tuesday 16^th November 1943 two aircraft, Spitfire P7826 piloted by F/O Percy Hunt, RAF, and Spitfire P7293 piloted by F/O Maurice Jones, RCAF, airborne out of RAF Kirton-in-Lindsay were involved in a non-survivable mid-air collision resulting in total engine loss. Joseph was 20 years old at the time of his death and his name appears on the memorial at Manchester Crematorium, West Didsbury.

Second son of Herbert William Hunt & Lilian Hunt of Brooklands, Cheshire.

A copy of this story is available for download here.

See also the Commonwealth War Graves Commission permanent digital memorial, ‘Evermore: Stories of the fallen’ relating to:- F/Officer Joseph Percy HUNT