He was an electrical engineering student with South African Railways before becoming a cadet at RAF Staff College, Andover and was then commissioned as Second Lieutenant in the Royal Flying Corps (Military Wing) in October 1917.

[2] After the First World War, in 1924, he joined the South African Air Force,[3] having been recruited by Major Allister Miller,[4] and in 1937 was appointed Commanding Officer of the Aircraft and Artillery Depot.

[3] He was appointed Director of Civil Aviation in Southern Rhodesia in 1939.

Sir Archibald Sinclair, the British Secretary of State for Air, praised the excellent quality of the reinforcements coming to the RAF from the RATG.

[7] Meredith is the author of an article 'The Rhodesian Air Training Group 1940-1945' in a Rhodesian historical journal, published in July 1973 [8] Meredith was awarded the Air Force Cross in June 1919.