Robert Wilkinson "Paddy" Turkington, DSO, DFC & Bar (1920 – 29 July 1945) was a Northern Irish Second World War Royal Air Force (RAF) fighter pilot and flying ace.
[1][2][3] Turkington was born in 1920 in Mhow, British Raj[1] or in Derrytrasna, County Armagh, Northern Ireland.
[4] Turkington enlisted in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve (RAFVR) in 1940, and trained as a pilot in Canada.
43 Squadron RAF, and flew a Hawker Hurricane with them on the Dieppe Raid of 19 August 1942.
[6][3] Having been killed in a flying accident on 29 July 1945,[1] he is buried in the Padua War Cemetery, Italy.