Roy Hesketh’s biography, fact, career, awards, net worth and life story

Intro South African racing driver
Was Engineer
Racecar driver
From South Africa
Type Engineering
Sports
Gender male
Birth

1915, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa

Death

19 September 1944, Great Bitter Lake, Egypt
(aged 29 years)

Lieutenant Roy O. Hesketh (1915 in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa – 19 September 1944, above Great Bitter Lake, Egypt) was a South African racing driver and South African Air Force pilot.

Lieutenant Roy Hesketh died in Egypt in an aircraft collision in the Second World War. The Roy Hesketh Circuit in Pietermaritzburg was named after him.

He was buried at the Fayid War Cemetery in Fayid, Egypt.

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