David Leonard
Son (with one brother) of David Charles Oakenfold (1881-1945), and Jane Eliza Woodbury (1885-1959).
Married (24.12.1939, Paddington, London) Clarissa Agnes Maud Howe (02.06.1915 - 30.03.2009), of Bayswater, London, daughter (with two sisters) of Albert Frank Howe (1893-1958), and Clarissa Brocklehurst (1897-1985). She remarried (1951) Thomas Victor Renzetti.
St Marylebone district, London
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12.02.1946
Kimble, Buckinghamshire
(air accident) [age 29]
[Marlow Cemetery, Buckinghamshire, section F, row H, grave 95]
| Ldg.Acm. | ? [1396538] |
| P/O (prob) | 02.01.1943 [136474] |
| (WS) F/O (prob) | 02.07.1943 |
| (WS) F/Lt. | 02.01.1945 |
| 02.01.1943 | commissioned, RAFVR (General Duties Branch) [emergency commission] |
|
TWO DEAD IN PLANE CRASH |
|
Flight-Lieut. D.L. Oakenfield (sic) and Flying-Officer W.G. Reeve, of the Royal Air Force, stationed at Booker, were killed on Tuesday afternoon when the Tiger Moth training machine [T6196] which they were flying crashed in a field in Little Kimble. Farm employees of Colonel W.C. Devereux, at Roundhill Farm, Little Kimble, were working in the fields when their attention was attracted to a 'plane flying low over the farm. The machine struck some high tension electric cables and came hurtling upside-down to the ground, where it burst into flames. The farm workers hurriedly went to the scene and one of them, Mr. James Hicks, made an attempt to rescue the occupants of the machine, but was driven back by the fierce flames. The explosion of the petrol tank of the 'plane was heard for some miles. The machine burnt out before fire fighting apparatus could be brought into action. The bodies of the two airmen were badly burned when ultimately recovered from the wreckage. |
Edward Gerald
Married ((06?).1908, Kensington, Greater London).
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Newton Abbot district, Devon
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29.01.1964
Bovey Tracey, North Devon
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RNVR: |
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Lt. |
? |
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RAF: |
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Maj. |
01.04.1918 |
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T/Lt.Col. |
01.04.1918
(Unemployed List 06.10.1919) |
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[Hon.?] W/Cdr. |
? |
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RAFVR: |
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P/O (prob) |
21.03.1939 [72904] |
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P/O |
22.07.1939 |
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F/O |
22.07.1939
(reld 28.02.1946) |
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OBE |
01.01.1919 |
? |
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MID |
06.1918 |
? |
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Crwn |
28.04.1922 |
? |
| WW
I |
served
RNVR |
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| 1918? |
served
RAF (Administrative Branch, from 23.05.1918 Technical Branch) |
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| 21.03.1939 |
commissioned, RAFVR (Administrative and
Special Duties Branch) |
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| 19.01.1942 |
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transferred,
Training Branch |
Michael William
Son of George William O'Brien, and Enid Mary Perry.
Hyderabad, Sind, India
-
22.03.1945
(KIA) [age 23]
[initially buried at Waldfriedhof Lauheide, later re-interred at Reichswald Forest War Cemetery, Germany, 18.E.17]
| Aircraftman 2nd class | 12.08.1940 [1375476] |
| Sgt. | 1941? |
| P/O (prob) | 26.06.1941 [69497] |
| (WS) F/O | 26.06.1942 |
| (WS) F/Lt. | 26.06.1943 |
| (A) Sq.Ldr. | 14.08.1944 |
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DFC | 13.10.1944 | ? |
| 12.08.1940 | enlisted, RAFVR (for pilot duties) | ||
| 26.06.1941 | commissioned, RAFVR (General Duties Branch) | ||
| 26.06.1941 | No. 14 Service Flying Training School RAF (Twinwood Farm, Bedfordshire) | ||
| 05.07.1941 | No. 2 School of Air Navigation RAF (RAF Cranage, Cheshire) | ||
| 18.08.1941 | No. 9 Service Flying Training School RAF (Hullavington, Wiltshire) | ||
| 30.03.1942 | No. 2 (Pilot) Advanced Flying Unit RAF (RAF Brize Norton, Oxfordshire) | ||
| 21.07.1942 | No. 3 Glider Training School RAF (Stoke Orchard, Gloucestershire) | ||
| 18.11.1942 | No. 1 Glider Training School RAF (RAF Croughton, Northamptonshire) | ||
| 18.02.1943 | HQ No. 51 Group RAF (Moorfield House, Leeds) | ||
| 28.06.1943 | HQ Flight Training Centre RAF (Shinfield Park, Reading, Berkshire) | ||
| 02.09.1943 | 165 SCU [= 1655 Mosquito Training Unit] RAF | ||
| 21.10.1943 | pilot, 139 Squadron RAF (Wyton, Cambridgeshire) (flying Mosquitos) | ||
| 28.01.1944 | pilot, 192 Squadron RAF (Foulsham, Norfolk) (DFC) | ||
| 14.08.1944 | instructor, 1692 Bomber Support Training Unit (Great Massingham, Norfolk) | ||
| 05.02.1945 | - | 22.03.1945 | pilot, 23
Squadron RAF (Little Snoring, Norfolk) (B Flight commander) [Airborne 19:35 hrs from Little Snoring for Intruder operations (bomber support) in the Handorf and Münster area in Mosquito RS577 (YP-T). Cause of loss and crash-site not established.] |
Leslie Curtis
Son (with four brothers) of Herbert Fruin Ockenden (1862-1951), and Mary Ann Curtis (1864-1946).
Married ((06?).1930, Battersea district, London) Gladys Ada Wright (03.06.1904 - 04.1994), daughter (with three sisters and one brother) of Albert Wright (1870-1948), and Alice Amelia Rumble (1873-1962); two sons.
Wandsworth district, London
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02.1993
Oxford district, Oxfordshire
| P/O (prob) | 14.11.1940 [87281] |
| P/O | 1941?, seniority 04.11.1940 (reld 05.12.1945) |
| (A) F/Lt. | (1945?) |
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MID | 01.01.1946 | ? |
| 14.11.1940 | commissioned, RAFVR (Administrative and Special Duties Branch) [emergency commission] | ||
| ? | - | 08.1941 | No. 76 Course, Officers' School RAF |
Published: The Sloane School Scientific Society (1935); Batteries of the London Institution 1821 (In: Annals of Science 1937); Mr. Bumbletoes of Bimbleton : some jolly tales of Bimbleton (1948)
David Walter
Son of Ernest Oddy, and Ada Maud Bonfield.
Married (07.06.1947, Bournemouth, Hampshire) Mercy Agnes Kingston (10.02.1927 - 08.2002), daughter of William Thomas Kingston, and Mercy Ruth L. Bullard; two daughters.
Bournemouth, Christchurch district, Hampshire
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19.01.2001
Bournemouth, Hampshire
| F/Sgt. | ? [1321186] |
| P/O (prob) | 01.04.1944 [175329] |
| (WS) F/O | 01.10.1944 |
| (WS) F/Lt. | 01.04.1946 |
| 01.04.1944 | commissioned, RAFVR (General Duties Branch) [emergency commission] | ||
| 149 Squadron RAF (Bomber Command) (Mildenhall) |
Philip Hoyles
Son of Joseph Zerah Ogden (1883-1965), and Florence Hoyles.
Married ((03?).1945, Thirsk district, North Riding of Yorkshire) Vivienne Muriel Stead ((09?).1927 - 10.2010), daughter of Edmund T. Stead, and Muriel Stainthorp; two daughters, one son.
Keighley district, Yorkshire
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27.09.2000
North Yorkshire
| Ldg.Acm. | ? [1623523] |
| P/O (prob) | 01.10.1943 [153608] |
| (WS) F/O | 01.04.1944 |
| (WS) F/Lt. | 01.10.1945 |
| 01.10.1943 | commissioned, RAFVR (General Duties Branch) [emergency commission] | ||
| finished the war in a Photograph Reconnaissance Unit |
Charles Alexander
Kelso district, Roxburghshire, Scotland
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02.1995
Chichester distirict, West Sussex
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Sgt. |
?
[745745] |
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P/O (prob) |
29.09.1940
[85681] |
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P/O |
29.09.1941 |
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(WS) F/O |
29.09.1941 |
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(WS) F/Lt. |
29.09.1942 |
| 29.09.1940 |
commissioned, RAFVR
(General Duties Branch) [emergency commission] |
Leonard William
Son (with two sisters) of Leonard Francis O'Hara (1879-1946), and Catherine Friel (1889-1968).
Des Moines, Iowa, USA
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16.09.1942
[Runnymede Memorial, panel 71]
| P/O (prob) | 13.12.1941 [112290] |
| 13.12.1941 | commissioned, RAFVR (General Duties Branch) [emergency commission] | ||
| 13.12.1941 | - | 11.01.1942 | No. 3 Personnel Reception Centre (PRC) RAF |
| 12.01.1942 | - | 08.02.1942 | No. 13 Service Flying Training School (SFTS) RAF |
| 09.02.1942 | - | 23.02.1942 | 1511 Beam Approach Training Flight (BATF) RAF |
| 24.02.1942 | - | 27.06.1942 | 12 Operational Training Unit (OTU) RAF |
| 28.06.1942 | - | 07.08.1942 | 1651 Conversion Unit (CU) RAF |
| 08.08.1942 | - | 16.09.1942 | 15 Squadron
RAF [Flew operations against Silverthorn (Samsĝ Island) 10.08 (abandoned), Mainz 11.08, Frankfurt 24.08, Kassel 27.08, Nürnberg 28.08 (abandoned), Saarbrücken 01.09, Karlsruhe 02.09, Bremen 04.09, Duisburg 06.09, "Gardening" operation 09.09, Düsseldorf 10.09, Wilhelmshaven 14.09. Stirling I (BF353 LS-E) took off 20:25 hrs 16.09.1942 from Bourn for a bombing operation on Essen. The aircraft cashed in the IJsselmeer, the Netherlands, 10 km NW of Harderwijk.] |
Reginald Beverley
Son of the Revd. Reginald Samuel Edward Oliver, B.A. and Mrs. Oliver.
Husband of Elsie Kendall Oliver of Edingthorpe.
Dedham, Lexden district, Essex
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31.03.1942
Bromley district, Greater London / Kent
[age 49]
[Bacton (St Andrew) Churchyard, Norfolk, grave A33]
| P/O (prob) | 09.11.1940 [87934] |
| (WS) F/O (prob) | 09.08.1941 |
| (WS) F/O | 09.11.1941 |
| (A) F/Lt. | ? |
| served in WWI, initially in the Border Regiment (Sgt.), then in the Intelligence Corps (T/Capt.) | |||
| 09.11.1940 | commissioned, RAFVR (Administrative and Special Duties Branch) [emergency commission] |
Eric Thomas
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1953
| P/O (prob) | ? [127170] |
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DFC | 04.1944 | * |
| ? | commissioned, RAFVR (General Duties Branch) [emergency commission] | ||
| (1944) | observer, 605 Squadron RAF (DFC) |
Ronald Henry
Son of Luke Henry Orton (1887-1952), and Eva Ruth Fairchild (1893-1990).
Peterborough district, Northamptonshire
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26.06.1941
Ely district, Cambridgeshire / Norfolk
[age 19]
[Peterborough (Eastfield) Cemetery, Northamptonshire, div. 1, block 11, grave 4198]
| Ldg.Acm. | ? [928512] |
| P/O (prob) | 09.03.1941 [62313] |
| 09.03.1941 | commissioned, RAFVR (General Duties Branch) [emergency commission] | ||
| ? | - | 26.06.1941 | pilot, 11
Operational Training Unit RAF [Wellington IC R1292 had taken off from Bassingbourn on 21.06.1941 for a night flying detail. While in the circuit, the port engine failed, thus necessitating a forced-landing at 02:15 hrs, in which the aircraft hit some trees to the West of Wendy, a little over 10 miles SW of Cambridge. Five days after the accident, P/O Orton died from his injuries. Two others died as well from their wounds.] |
Roger William
Elder son of William Stanley Osborn (1884-1952), and Winifred Caroline Wadman (1886-1951), of Petts Wood, Kent.
Married ((09?).1936, Chelsea district, London) Patricia J. Brierley, daughter of Mr & Mrs R.E. Brierley, of London W4.
Colmworth, Battle district, Sussex
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08.06.1983
Bedford district, Bedfordshire
| (A) P/O (prob) | 14.03.1941 [62203] |
| P/O (prob) | 30.05.1941 |
| (WS) F/O | 30.05.1942 |
| P/O | 30.12.1942 |
| (WS) F/Lt. | 30.12.1944 (emgcy) (reld 14.08.1955) |
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DFC | 23.03.1945 | ? [decoration posted] |
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39|45 St | - | - |
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AircEur | - | & clasp France & Germany |
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WM 39|45 | - | - |
| 14.03.1941 | commissioned, RAFVR (Equipment Branch) | ||
| 30.12.1942 | transferred, RAFVR (General Duties Branch) [at own request] | ||
| (1945) | 141 Squadron RAF (DFC) |
Philip Norman
Son of Philip Valentine & Alice Maud Osborne (deid 1927), Chincona Planters.
Mungpoo, North Bengal, India
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10.11.1945
[Jakarta War Cemetery, Indonesia, 5.F.1]
| Ldg.Acm. | ? [1395070] |
| P/O (prob) | 23.04.1943 [151968] |
| (WS) F/O (prob) | 23.10.1943 |
| (WS) F/Lt. | 23.04.1945 |
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39|45 St | - | - |
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Bur St | - | - |
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Def M | - | - |
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WM 39|45 | - | - |
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GSM | - | & clasp South Asia 1945-46 |
| 1941 | enlisted, RAFVR | ||
| after training at Hatfield he was sent to Canada with the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan as a Flying Instructor; based at 37 Service Flying Training School in Calgary, Alberta 1942-44 | |||
| 23.04.1943 | commissioned, RAFVR (General Duties Branch) [emergency commission] | ||
| ? | - | 10.11.1945 | 110
(Hyderabad) Squadron RAF (Seletar, Singapore) [On attachment to Batavia and detailed for a reconnaissance flight with an army Brigadier as passenger. Eyewitnesses stated that the aircraft failed to become airborne and crashed at the end of runway. Both occupants were killed instantly.] |
Charles Augustus Grey Bennet; since 1971:
9th Earl of Tankerville
Elder son of 8th Earl of Tankerville, and of Roberta, daughter of late Percy Mitchell.
Succeeded father, 1971.
Married 1st (15.05.1943) Virginia Diether (from whom he obtained a divorce, 1950), Vancouver; one daughter.
Married 2nd (22.06.1954) Georgiana Lilian Maude, daughter of late Gilbert Wilson, DD, of Vancouver,
Canada; one son, two daughters (of whom one son, one daughter are twins).
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27.04.1980
San Francisco, Cal., USA
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Sgt. |
? [1270607] |
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P/O (prob) |
30.07.1941 [103562] |
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P/O |
30.07.1942 |
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(WS) F/O |
30.07.1942 |
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(WS) F/Lt. |
30.07.1943 (reld
18.07.1946) |
| 30.07.1941 |
- |
18.07.1946 |
served as
an officer RAFVR - General Duties Branch |
Alan George Alfred
Son (with one brother) of Alfred John William Overall (1882-1951), and Clara Winifred Stephens (1883-1952).
Married ((03?).1940, Southend on Sea district, Essex) Irene Louise Grandison Hill (18.03.1918 - 03.1983), daughter of ... Hill, and ... Grandison, of Southend-on-Sea; one daughter, one son. Irene Overall remarried (1953) Denis H.W. Frith.
Rochford district, Essex
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18.01.1944
(KIA) [age 26]
[Southend-on-Sea Cemetery, plot R, grave 12101]
| Wt.Offr. | ? [748234] |
| P/O (prob) | 17.01.1943 [141404] |
| (WS) F/O (prob) | 17.07.1943 |
| 17.01.1943 | commissioned, RAFVR (General Duties Branch) [emergency commission] | ||
| ? | - | 18.01.1944 |
navigator/bomber, Bombing Trials Unit RAF [Handley Page Hampden Mk. I Ser No P1216 crashed at Braid Fell Ranges, Stranraer. Took off from West Freugh, Wigtowns for low-level bombing trials. During turn to port, aircraft stalled and hit the ground. Crew of three were killed.] |
William Albert
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| Sgt. | ? [1291385] |
| P/O (prob) | 30.06.1943 [148043] |
| (WS) F/O (prob) | 30.12.1943 |
| (WS) F/Lt. | 30.06.1945 |
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DFC | 19.10.1943 | ? |
| 30.06.1943 | commissioned, RAFVR (General Duties Branch) [emergency commission] | ||
| (1943) | 158 Squadron RAF (DFC) |
Douglas Alfred
"Douggie"
Son of William Bramwell Oxby, and Mabel E. Johnson.
Married 1st; two sons.
Married 2nd (she died 2007).
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Cardiff, Glamorgan
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10.04.2009
Toronto, Ont., Canada
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F/Sgt. |
?
[1254447] |
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P/O (prob) |
31.10.1942
[138413] |
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(WS) F/O (prob) |
30.04.1943 |
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(WS) F/Lt. |
31.10.1944 |
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F/O |
01.09.1945,
seniority 31.10.1943 |
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F/Lt. |
01.07.1946,
seniority 30.04.1946 |
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Sqn.Ldr. |
01.07.1951 |
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W/Cdr. |
01.07.1957
(retd 11.03.1969; own request) |
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DSO |
16.03.1945 |
* |
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DFC |
15.12.1944 |
** |
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DFM |
04.12.1942 |
? |
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DFM |
16.02.1943 |
*** |
* As observer, this officer has displayed skill
of the highest order. He has taken part in a very large number of sorties and
has assisted dn the destruction of 21 enemy aircraft. These successes are an
outstanding tribute to his great ability, praiseworthy courage and iron
determination.
** This officer is a highly efficient, keen and resolute observer. He has
participated in a large number of sorties and has assisted in the destruction
of 17 enemy aircraft at night, 3 of them in one sortie. His devotion to duty
has been unfailing.
*** Flight Sergeant Oxby has displayed exceptional keenness and devotion to
duty. He has taken part in the destruction at night of 13 enemy aircraft.
Barrister's clerk.
| 06.1940 |
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joined RAF
as ground radar operator |
| trained as
radio operator (air) |
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| 1941 |
- |
1942? |
68 Squadron
RAF |
| 1942? |
- |
06.1943 |
89 Squadron
RAF |
| 31.10.1942 |
commissioned, RAFVR
(General Duties Branch) |
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| 06.1943 |
- |
spring
1944 |
instructor
at a training unit for radar operators |
| spring
1944 |
- |
1945 |
219
Squadron RAF |
| instructor
at a fighter training unit |
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| 01.09.1945 |
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permanent
commission RAF |
| serving
as an instructor at an air navigation school and at the Central Fighter
Establishment and at HQ Fighter Command; in June 1962 he was appointed
assistant air adviser to the British high commissioner in Ottawa |