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Cadell, Colin Simson Son of late Lt.Col. John Macfarlane Cadell, DL, Foxhall, Kirkliston, West Lothian, and Mary Simson. Married (1939) Rosemary Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Edward Pooley; two sons one daughter.	07.08.1905 Colinton, Edinburgh - 29.10.1996 [Edinburgh ?]	P/O 18.09.1925 [05131] F/Lt. 1933 Sq.Ldr. 01.02.1937 Gp.Capt. 01.01.1946 (T) A/Cdre. 01.01.1946 (retd 10.05.1947) CBE 19.09.1944 ? LM 15.03.1946 ?	Education: Merchiston Castle School, Edinburgh; Edinburgh University (MA); Ecole Supérieur d'Électricité, Paris (Ingénieur ESE, 1932-1933); RAF College, Cranwell; RAF Staff College (1937-1938, psa); AMIEE. 18.09.1925     commissioned, RAF (General Duties Branch)       qualified at specialist signals course; additionally qualified at university course in electrical engineering and wireless telegraphy; qualified by examination as interpreter 1927 - 1929 served with 4 Squadron, RAF Farnborough 1929 - 1931 service with 208 Squadron, Heliopolis, Egypt 1933 - 1934 served with 2 Squadron, RAF Manston, Kent 1934 - 1936 Aide de Camp to Sir Miles Wedderburn Lampson, Ambassador to Egypt and High Commissioner for the Sudan 1936     service with 45 Squadron, Helwan, Egypt 1936 - 1937 Senior Technical Officer, RAF Signals School, Cranwell, Lincolnshire 1938 - 1940 Operations Branch, Air Ministry 16.01.1939     Air Staff, Deputy Directorate of Operations (Overseas) 29.04.1940     Staff, Directorate of Signals [employed on the 'Beetle Scheme', the establishment of a nationwide combined services communications network] 1940     Officer Commanding, RCM Unit, No 80 Wing 1940 - 1941 Wing Commander - Operations, HQ No 80 Wing, RAF Countermeasures Unit, Radlett, Hertfordshire 07.03.1941 - 22.04.1942 Staff, Deputy Directorate of Intelligence (4), Intelligence Department, Air Ministry 22.04.1942 - 1943 Deputy Director of Intelligence (4), Intelligence Department, Air Ministry [involved in the development of the intelligence listening station at Chicksands, Bedfordshire] 22.04.1943     Chief Signals Officer, HQ Middle East Command (Cairo, Egypt) 30.11.1943 - 1946 Director of Telecommunications and of Signals, Air Ministry 1946 - 1947 RAF Turnhouse, Lothian Managing Director, International Aeradio, 1947-1958; Director: Carron Company, 1958-1971; Royal Bank of Scotland, 1963-1969. Member, Edinburgh Airport Consultative Committee, 1972 (Chairman, 1972-1982). Member Queen's Body Guard for Scotland (Royal Company of Archers). DL Linlithgowshire, 1963-1972. Vice Lieutenant for West Lothian, 1972-1988.
Caiger, John Jeffrey	08.02.1900 - 1996	F/O (prob) 20.02.1922 [11164] F/Lt. 01.01.1929 (retd 31.03.1931) (reactivated 26.08.1939) (T) Sq.Ldr. 01.09.1940 (reverted to retd 21.12.1944; retaining rank of Sq.Ldr.)	20.02.1922     short service commission, RAF (Stores Branch; for accountant duties) [later: Accountant Branch] 15.10.1924     permanent commission ... - ... ...
Callingham, Clarence Judge "Clarrie" Son (with two brothers and two half siblings) of Thomas Henry Callingham (1887-1952), and Julia Ann Foothead (1884-1970). Married 1st (23.12.1939, Welton, Yorkshire) Gladys Mary Kellington (05.03.1916 - 20.04.1966), daughter of Alfred William Kellington (1880-1959), and Martha Stather (1884-1965); one daughter. Married 2nd (08.06.1968, Hull, Yorkshire) Eileen Ida Chinnery (? - 08.12.1969). Married 3rd (18.03.1972, Hull, Yorkshire) Joan Mary Martin (13.07.1929 - 29.11.2004).	14.05.1912 Upper Hut, Wellington, New Zealand - 07.11.1999 Brough, Yorkshire	(A) P/O (prob) 24.08.1937 [40206] P/O 24.08.1938 F/O 24.03.1940 (WS) F/Lt. 24.03.1941 (T) Sq.Ldr. 01.09.1942 F/Lt. 23.01.1946 25.02.1947, seniority 01.12.1942 Sq.Ldr. 01.08.1947 (retd 24.02.1959) AFC 08.06.1944 ?	24.08.1937     commissioned, RAF (General Duties Branch) [short service commission] 08.1937 - 10.1937 9th Regular Course, Sywell 11.1937     No. 5 Flying Training School RAF 04.06.1938 - 20.08.1938 7 (Bomber) Squadron RAF 20.08.1938 - 02.09.1939 76 (Bomber) Squadron RAF 16.05.1940 - 21.04.1941 4 Ferry Pilots' Pool RAF 21.04.1941     24 Maintenance Unit RAF, then 32 Maintenance Unit RAF (test pilot) 24.08.1941     transferred, Reserve of Air Force Officers (and called up for Air Force service) 23.01.1946     extended service commission 15.10.1947 - 1951 serving in MEDME Ismailia 20.12.1948     permanent commission 19.03.1951 - 1954 Officer Commanding, Target Towing Flight, RAF Acklington 1954 - 1957 Commanding Officer, RAF Hucknall, Nottinghamshire 1957 - 1959 Commanding Officer, RAF Fazakerley, near Liverpool
Campbell, John Hunter McNeill	29.06.1905 - 1974 Inverness district, Inverness-shire, Scotland	Sq.Ldr. 01.04.1937 [16148] (retd 16.04.1940)	17.12.1924     commissioned       qualified at specialist navigation course
Campbell, John James Son of Henry and Rose Sarah Amelia Campbell; husband of Beryl Lilian Dolman Campbell, of Merry Hill, Wolverhampton.	1912 ? - 20.04.1941 [age 29] [Saint Andrew Churchyard Cranwell, Lincolnshire, 2.B.17]	P/O 01.04.1940 [43184] DFC ? ?	? - 20.04.1941 Pilot Instructor
Campbell, Peter Purvis	12.11.1918 Ballymoney district, Ireland - 01.1997 Lincoln district, Lincolnshire	F/Sgt. ? [550566] P/O (prob) 03.08.1944 [55752] (WS) F/O 03.02.1945 F/O 24.10.1946 06.05.1947, seniority 03.08.1945 F/Lt. 03.02.1948 (retd 24.10.1953)	03.08.1944     commissioned, RAF (Technical Branch) [emergency commission] 24.10.1946 - 24.10.1953 extended service commission
Campbell, Roland William "Rollo" Married Naomi Campbell (died 07.02.2007, aged 90).	21.04.1915 - 12.1996 Kingston upon Thames, Surrey	2nd Lt. 31.01.1935 [64652] Lt. 31.01.1938 Capt. 31.01.1943 Maj. 31.01.1948 (retd 31.12.1956) RAF: (T) F/O 31.10.1938 [25120] F/Lt. ? (T) Sq.Ldr. 01.12.1941 (reld 05.02.1946) DFC 14.09.1945 ?	31.01.1935     commissioned, Royal Tank Corps (later: Royal Tank Regiment - Royal Armoured Corps) 31.10.1938 - 05.02.1946 specially employed [seconded to RAF]: (1945)     175 Squadron RAF 31.12.1956 - 21.04.1965 Regular Army Reserve of Officers [age limit]
Campbell, William Gardner	? -	Sq.Ldr. 01.04.1937 [22040] W/Cdr. 01.07.1948	Education: AMIMechE, AFRAeS qualified at a specialist course in engineering (1954) still serving
Candy, John Geoffrey Sadler	19.02.1897 Alton, Hampshire - 11.05.1955 East Kingston, nr Littehampton, Sussex	Sq.Ldr. 12.12.1928 [02080] (retd 12.09.1937) (T) W/Cdr. ? DFC ? ?	01.04.1918     commissioned, RAF       qualified at a specialist course in engineering 25.08.1939 - 26.01.1946 recalled to active service
Cann, Gilbert Howard Son (with one sister and one brother) of William James Cann, RN (1867-1930), and Laura Bunker (1867-1942). Brother of Maj. Cyril William Roy Cann, Royal Artillery. Cousin of Capt. Wilfred Lancelot Lillicrap, RAPC. Brother-in-law of Cdr. Eric Stanley Oatley, RN. Married (24.04.1931, Chichester, Sussex) Evelyn Violet Dalby ((12?).1906 - 20.12.1999); one son, one daughter.	11.07.1907 Plymouth, Devon - 25.08.1979 New Zealand [Fairhall Cemetery, Marlborough district, New Zealand]	Wt.Offr. ? [365126] F/O (prob) 01.02.1942, seniority 16.01.1942 [48767] (T) F/Lt. 01.07.1944, seniority 01.07.1943 (retd 19.08.1947; retaining rank of F/Lt.)	01.02.1942     commissioned, RAF (Administrative and Special Duties Branch) [emergency commission] 01.04.1942     transferred, RAF (Technical Branch) Went to New Zealand and served RNZAF. Bookseller.
Cannam, Peter Son of Harry Gould Cannam (1887-1959), and Gladys Mary Winson (1889-1983). Married ((12?).1955, Brixworth district, Northamptonshire) Thelma Playford; ... children (two sons, one daughter?).	12.10.1916 Steyning district, Sussex - 08.04.1972 Stroud district, Gloucestershire	(A) P/O (prob) 21.12.1936 [70114] P/O (prob) 12.10.1937 P/O 16.10.1937 F/O 12.04.1939 F/Lt. 03.09.1940 03.06.1941, seniority 03.06.1941 [reduction in rank] (dispersal 05.07.1946) (demobilized 20.10.1946) (reld 01.07.1959; retaining rank of Sq.Ldr.) (T) Sq.Ldr. 01.07.1945 (A) Sq.Ldr. 18.09.1945 39|45 St - - Afr St - & clasp It St - - Def M - - WM 39|45 - - DFC (US) 14.06.1946 ?	21.12.1936     commissioned, Reserve of Air Force Officers (General Duties Branch) (Class A) 21.12.1936     RAF Depot, Uxbridge, Middlesex 16.01.1937     No. 8 Flying Training School RAF (Montrose, Angus) 07.08.1937     65 (Fighter) Squadron RAF (Hornchurch, Essex) 13.09.1937     54 (Fighter) Squadron RAF (Hornchurch, Essex) 01.01.1940     No. 24 Elementary Flying Training School RAF (Belfast, Northern Ireland) (for flying instructor duties) 16.06.1941     No. 5 Elementary Flying Training School RAF (Reading, Berkshire) (for flying instructor duties) [attached to HQ No. 50 Group RAF] 07.10.1941     52 Operational Training Unit RAF (Aston Down, Gloucestershire) (supernumerary; for operational training) 18.11.1941     256 Squadron RAF (Squires Gate, Lancashire) (for flying duties) 22.12.1941     74 Squadron RAF (Llanbedr, Merionethshire, from 10.04.1942 Middle East) (for flying duties) 28.08.1942     145 Squadron RAF (Egypt) (for flying duties) 12.12.1942     244 Wing RAF (Haseiat, Egypt) (for flying instructor duties) 22.02.1943     No. 1 Middle East Training School RAF (Ballah, Egypt) (for flying instructor duties) 23.02.1943     71 Operational Training Unit RAF (Egypt) (for flying instructor duties) 21.08.1943     Rear HQ Desert Air Force (Lentini, Sicily) (supernumerary pending postig; for operational flying) 24.08.1943     145 Squadron RAF (Sicily) (for operational flying) 24.12.1943     No. 2 Base Personnel Depot RAF (Tunis) (for disposal) 22.01.1944     No. 162 Maintenance Unit RAF (Algeria) (for test pilot duties) 01.06.1944     Mediterranean Allied Air Forces, Italy (supernumerary) 07.02.1945     No. 5 Refresher Flying Unit (Perugia, Italy) (for disposal) 08.03.1945     244 Wing RAF (Bellaria, Italy) (supernumerary pending posting) 15.03.1945     92 Squadron RAF (Bellaria, Italy) (for flying duties) 21.04.1945     241 Squadron RAF (Treviso, Italy) (as Flight Commander on flying duties) (US DFC) 14.08.1945     No. 1 Mobile Operations Room Unit (Pavia D'Undine, Italy) (for embarkation operations) 18.09.1945     Commanding Officer, 111 Squadron RAF (Austria) 28.12.1945     No. 59 Personnel Transit Centre (Milan, Italy) (supernumerary pending posting to Middle East) 22.06.1946     No. 1 Release Embarkation Centre (Milan) (supernumerary pending posting to Home Establishment) 01.07.1946     No. 104 Personnel Dispersal Centre (Hednesford, Staffordshire) (for Class A release) Optician, Gloucester.
Cannon, Leslie William Son of late Capt. W.E. Cannon, Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment, and of Cathleen Mary (née Jackson), of Bedford. Married ((12?).1930, Biggleswade district, Bedfordshire) Beryl Heyworth.	09.04.1904 Colchester district, Essex - 27.01.1986 Slough district, Berkshire	P/O 30.07.1925 [16166] ... ... Sq.Ldr. 01.04.1937 (T) W/Cdr. 01.03.1940 W/Cdr. 20.11.1942, seniority 01.07.1941 (T) Gp.Capt. 01.03.1942 (WS) Gp.Capt. 24.06.1945 ... ... Air Vice Marshal 01.01.1953 (retd 04.11.1958) CB, CBE, mid (4x), SSM	Education: Hertford Grammar School; RAF College, Cranwell. 1920 - 1923 RAF boy mechanic 1923 - 1925 officer cadet       qualified at specialist engineering course ... - ... ... 25.08.1939 - 1940 Staff Officer, Directorate of Operations (Home), Air Ministry 27.05.1940     Engineering Staff Officer, HQ Bomber Command RAF 1941     Chief Technical Officer, 21 Operation Training Unit RAF 1942     Directing Staff Officer, RAF Staff College 1942     Commanding Officer, RAF Watton (No. 2 Bomber Group RAF) 19.03.1943     Deputy Senior Air Staff Officer, HQ No 83 (Composite) Group RAF 08.12.1943     Staff Officer Air Plans, HQ No 2 Group RAF 24.12.1944 - 1946 Air Officer-in-Charge of Administration, HQ No 2 Group RAF ... - ... ...
Carey, Denis Holcombe	28.02.1899 Alverstoke, Hampshire -	Sq.Ldr. 01.12.1936 [07003] (T) W/Cdr. ? (retd 25.07.1943)	01.04.1918 first commission RAF qualified at specialist armament course
Carter, John Edward Son of Jesse Stephen and Lucy Margaret Carter, of Herne Bay. Husband of Vera Mason Carter (née Cooper).	(06?).1915 Herne Bay, Kent - 22.07.1941 [age 26] [Herne Bay Cemetery, Kent, BB.93]	(A) P/O (prob) 18.05.1937 [39711] P/O 15.03.1938 F/O 15.10.1939 F/Lt. 15.10.1940 MID 24.09.1941 ?	18.05.1937 first commission, RAF (General Duties Branch) [short service commission] 08.01.1938 - (02.1939) 97 Squadron RAF ... - 22.07.1941 Officer Commanding, B Flight, 10 Operational Training Unit RAF [killed when his Anson I [N5070] crashed on a night navigation exercise at around 0330 on high ground a mile or so NW of Westbury, Wiltshire; Carter had 1,065 of his 1,338 flying hours being logged on Anson trainers]
Cartmel, Bryan Spencer	28.02.1899 - 05.1989 Exeter, Devon	P/O (prob) 10.01.1930 [21131] P/O 10.01.1931 F/O 10.01.1931 F/Lt. 10.01.1937 Sq.Ldr. ? (T) W/Cdr. 01.06.1941 (WS) W/Cdr. 23.05.1945 W/Cdr. 01.10.1946 Gp.Capt. 01.07.1950 (retd 13.08.1960) OBE < 11.1946 ? MID 17.09.1943 ?	10.01.1930 commissioned, RAF (Stores Branch, later renamed Equipment Branch) ? - ? ? 27.02.1956 - (04.1956) Senior Equipment Staff Officer, Bomber Command HQ (RAF High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire) 27.03.1963 - 30.04.1968 Flying Officer (four years + one year extension + one month extension), RAF Volunteer Reserve (Training Branch)
Cartwright-Terry, Dudley Stuart Son of George H.C. Terry, and Rose E.X. Procter. Married ((09?).1946, Tavistock district, Cornwall / Devon) Kathleen M. Ryder.	(03?).1920 Hartley Wintney district, Hampshire -	Sgt. ? [591100] (A) P/O (prob) 29.08.1941, seniority 05.08.1941 [46477] P/O (prob) 19.09.1941 P/O 29.08.1942 (WS) F/O 19.09.1942 (T) F/Lt. 01.07.1944 F/Lt. 12.07.1946, seniority 01.09.1945 25.02.1947, seniority 01.09.1945 Sq.Ldr. 01.01.1949 W/Cdr. 01.07.1958 Gp.Capt. 01.07.1963	1936     joined RAF 29.08.1941     commissioned, RAF (Accountant Branch, later Secretarial Branch) [emergency commission] 12.07.1946     permanent commission
Carvell, Ronald Joseph Married; one son.	22.04.1906 Leicester district, Leicestershire - ?	P/O (prob) 17.07.1926 [22238] P/O 17.07.1927 F/O 17.01.1928 F/Lt. 01.02.1932 Sq.Ldr. 01.08.1937 (T) W/Cdr. 01.06.1940 (WS) W/Cdr. 05.10.1943 W/Cdr. 01.12.1943 (T) Gp.Capt. 01.01.1944, seniority 01.07.1943 Gp.Capt. 01.07.1947 (retd 22.04.1956)	17.07.1926     commissioned, RAF (General Duties Branch) [short service commission] 17.07.1926     No. 2 Flying Training School RAF (Digby) 21.06.1927     4 Squadron RAF (South Farnborough) 08.06.1929     Home Aircraft Depot RAF (Henlow) 01.09.1930     permanent commission 28.07.1932     No. 3 Stores Depot RAF (Milton) 27.10.1934     28 (Army Co-operation) Squadron RAF (Ambala, India) 25.09.1936     20 (Army Co-operation) Squadron RAF (Peshawar, India) 31.03.1938     No. 8 Flying Training School (Montrose) (for engineer duties) 24.04.1940     transferred, RAF (Technical Branch) 1946 - 1949 Ministry of Supply Representative in Australia 3 years     Coastal Command HQ (1953) - 1956 Senior Training Officer & Assistant Commandant, No. 1 School of Technical Training RAF (Halton) Worked for Vickers-Armstrong (Aircraft), Ltd. at Weybridge.
Casson, Lionel Harwood "Buck"	06.01.1915 Sheffield, Yorkshire - 10.2003 Sheffield, Yorkshire	(A) P/O ? [91000] P/O 06.04.1940 02.1941, seniority 03.12.1939 (WS) F/O 03.12.1940 (WS) F/Lt. 03.12.1941 F/O 03.05.1947, seniority 31.01.1947 Sq.Ldr. 02.10.1950 (transferred to reserve 02.11.1954) (reld 03.05.1957) DFC 16.09.1941 * AFC 01.06.1953 HM's coronation * This officer has been engaged on operations over a long period and has destroyed two, probably destroyed four and damaged" a further two enemy aircraft. Flight Lieutenant Casson carried out many offensive patrols following the Dunkirk evacuation and later fought in the Battle of Britain. This year he has participated in a large number of offensive patrols over Northern France. His efficiency, leadership and courage have set an excellent example.	first commission, Auxiliary Air Force (General Duties Branch) 616 Squadron RAF 03.05.1947 Flying Officer, Auxiliary Air Force 02.10.1950 - 02.11.1954 Commanding Officer, 616 (South Yorkshire) Squadron RAF
Cator, Francis Gerald	02.07.1902 Fulham, London - 30.12.1995 Hothfield, Ashford, Kent	P/O 20.12.1922 Sq.Ldr. 01.02.1937 [16072] Gp.Capt. 01.10.1946 (retd 24.05.1951) CBE	Education: psa 20.12.1922     commissioned, RAF (General Duties Branch)       qualified at specialist photographic course ... - ... ...
Cave, Victor Frank Son of ... Cave, and ... Godfrey. Married ((09?).1945, Wigton district, Cumberland) Florence Wilson; ... children (one son?).	22.08.1915 Christchurch district, Hampshire - 21.08.1969	F/Sgt. ? [566052] P/O (prob) 12.01.1942 [47778] (WS) F/O (prob) 01.10.1942 (WS) F/Lt. 12.01.1944 F/Lt. 30.05.1946, seniority 01.01.1943 Sq.Ldr. 01.11.1947, seniority 01.08.1947 (retd 30.07.1953)	(1940)     206 Squadron RAF 12.01.1942     commissioned, RAF (General Duties Branch) [emergency commission] ? - 26.06.1942 observer, 1 Operational Training Unit RAF [P5147 Hudson I missing on diversion raid for Bremen; shot down by a night fighter whilst returning home; went down in the sea near Terschelling, the Netherlands; captured] 1942 - 1945 POW in German captivity (Stalag Luft III) 30.05.1946     extended service commission (1947)     203 Squadron RAF 08.1948 - 02.1949 Commanding Officer, 120 Squadron RAF (1950)     RAF Station Shallufa
Cawte, William John	01.09.1904 Portsmouth district, Hampshire - 1975 Dorset	Wt.Offr. ? [335375] F/O (prob) 26.04.1940, seniority 15.02.1940 [43560] F/O 26.04.1941 (T) F/Lt. 01.12.1941 (WS) F/Lt. 25.09.1943 (T) Sq.Ldr. 01.07.1943-01.11.1947, seniority 01.03.1942 F/Lt. 03.10.1946, seniority 01.03.1945 (retd 03.10.1953; retaining rank of Sq.Ldr.)	26.04.1940     commissioned, RAF (Technical Branch) (Armament Officer) [emergency commission] 03.10.1946     extended service commission
Cawthorne, Charles Alfred Son of ... Cawthorne, and ... Bennett.	22.02.1924 Dalston, Hackney district, London - 02.2017 Great Western Hospital, Swindon, Wiltshire	Sgt. ? [577064] F/Sgt. ? P/O (prob) 11.05.1944 [54753] P/O 11.11.1944 (WS) F/O 11.11.1944 (WS) F/Lt. 11.05.1946 F/O 10.10.1946, seniority 11.05.1945 F/Lt. 11.11.1947 Sq.Ldr. 01.01.1959 W/Cdr. 01.01.1967 (retd 04.07.1974; own request) DFM 19.10.1943 ?	(1943)     467 (RAAF) Squadron 11.05.1944     commissioned, RAF (General Duties Branch) [emergency commission] (1944)     61 Squadron RAF [Lancaster LM718 (QR-K) was airborne 1917 hrs 23.09.1944 from Skellingthorpe to breach the Dortmund-Eems Canal at Ladbergen, just to the N of Münster; the aircraft crashed onto farmland near Deurne (Noord-Brabant, The Netherlands), some 9 km ESE of Helmond, after being abandoned by the crew; P/O Cawthorne evaded capture] 10.10.1946     extended service commission 07.09.1948     permanent commission 06.06.1950     transferred, RAF (Technical Branch) CEng, MRAeS, MIMgt
Chaloner Lindsey, Patrick Son of The Revd. Charles Chaloner Lindsey, OBE, and May Lindsey, of Cheltenham, Gloucestershire.	16.07.1920 Daresbury Cheshire - 26.07.1940 (KIA) [age 20] [Wimereux Communal Cemetery, France, 7.B.4]	(A) P/O (prob) 20.08.1938 [41036] P/O 27.06.1939 LoA 1939? mid-air collision 17.08.39	Education: St John's School, Leatherhead (1934-1937; member of the Officer Training Corps) 27.06.1938 - 19.08.1938 ab initio course, No. 1 Elementary & Reserve Flying Training School, RAF (Hatfield) 20.08.1938 - 02.09.1938 first commission, RAF (General Duties Branch) [short service commission] (disciplinary course, No. 1 Depot, RAF (Uxbridge)) 03.09.1938 - 14.04.1939 No. 2 Flying Training School, RAF (Brize Norton) (got his wings 12.12.1938) 15.04.1939 - 17.08.1939 staff pilot, No. 2 Air Observers School RAF (17.08.1939 pilot of one of three aircraft involved in a mid-air collision near Berwick-on-Tweed, after which he landed the aircraft safely) 17.08.1939 - 21.02.1940 Berwick infirmary, transferred to the RAF hospital at Halton on 23.10.1939 and went to convalescence at Torquay five days later 22.02.1940 - 11.03.1940 No. 1 Depot RAF (Uxbridge) (temporary administrative duties) 12.03.1940 - 22.03.1940 29 Squadron RAF (Debden) 23.03.1940 - 19.04.1940 5 Operational Training Unit RAF (Aston Down) 20.04.1940 - 26.07.1940 pilot, 601 Squadron RAF (Tangmere) (11.07.1940 claimed a Bf 110 destroyed) [while on patrol in his Hurricane I [P2753 'T'] shot down by a Me 109 of Oberleutnant Dobislav of III./Jagdgeschwader 27 two miles off St Catherine's Point; his body later washed up on the French coast]
Chamberlain, George Philip Son of G.A.R. Chamberlain, MA, FLAS, FRICS, Enville, Staffordshire. Married (1930) Alfreda Rosamond Kedward; one son, one daughter.	18.08.1905 Enville, Wolverhampton district, Staffordshire - 02.11.1995 Stanmore, Brent district, Middlesex	P/O 30.07.1925 [16168] Sq.Ldr. 01.02.1937 Air Vice Marshal 01.07.1955 (retd 25.09.1960) CB, OBE	Education: Denstone College; Royal Air Force College, Cranwell; psa. 30.07.1925     commissioned RAF; qualified at specialist signals course ... - ... ...       on loan to Min. of Civil Aviation, 1947-48; Imperial Defence Coll., 1949; AOA 205 Group, MEAF, 1950; AOC Transport Wing, MEAF, 1951-52; Commandant, RAF Staff Coll., Andover, 1953-54; AO i c A, HQ Fighter Command, 1954-57; Dep. Controller of Electronics, Min. of Supply, 1957-59, Min. of Aviation, 1959-60 Managing Director, Collins Radio Co. of England, 1961-66, non­executive director, 1967-75.
Chambers, Harold Married ...; ... children.	22.04.1902 - (09?).1976 Poole district, Dorset	Wt.Offr. ? [333090] F/O (prob) 23.05.1940, seniority 02.05.1940 [43601] F/O 23.05.1941 (T) F/Lt. 01.03.1942 (WS) F/Lt. 08.09.1942 F/Lt. 30.05.1946, seniority 01.09.1945 Sq.Ldr. 01.11.1947, seniority 01.08.1947 (retd 30.07.1953)	23.05.1940     commissioned, RAF (Administrative and Special Duties Branch) [emergency commission] 30.05.1946     extended service commission 01.01.1947     transferred, RAF (Secretarial Branch) A grandchild writes: "Known to be in Alexandria, Egypt in 1930, and later at RAF Uxbridge."
Chandler, Louis James	? -	Sq.Ldr. 01.07.1932 [?]   MBE ? ?	qualified at specialist signals course observer officer
Chapman, Cyril	12.10.1893 -	Sq.Ldr. 01.04.1934 [03178] (retd 16.05.1938) (T) W/Cdr. ?   DSC ? ?	01.04.1918 commissioned, RAF 25.08.1939 - 10.04.1946 recalled to active service
Chapman, William George Married (09.1935, East Ham, West Ham district, Essex) Gwendoline Julia G. Brooks (17.04.1912 - 08.2005); ... children.	27.06.1907 - 10.1991 Norwich district, Norfolk	F/Sgt. ? [362859] (A) P/O (prob) 06.06.1941, seniority 10.03.1941 [45915] P/O 06.06.1942 (WS) F/O 28.07.1942, seniority 02.05.1942 (T) F/Lt. 01.01.1944 (WS) F/Lt. 07.08.1945 F/Lt. 31.10.1946 Sq.Ldr. 01.08.1947 (retd 31.10.1956)	06.06.1941     commissioned, RAF (Technical Branch) [emergency commission] 31.10.1946     extended service commission 05.07.1949     permanent commission
Chatfield, Ivor Lewis Saer	(03?).1907 Portsmouth district, Hampshire - 01.06.1963 Chichester, Sussex	F/Sgt. ? [362860] (A) P/O (prob) 15.08.1941, seniority 08.07.1941 [46358] ... ...	? - 08.1941 No. 76 Course, Officers' School RAF 15.08.1941     commissioned, RAF (Technical Branch) [emergency commission]
Cheatle, George Anthony Lenthall Son of ... Cheatle, and ... Jopp.	29.01.1913 St Marylebone district, Greater London / London - 03.1987 Haywards Heath district, West Sussex	(A) P/O (prob) 16.04.1935  [37155] P/O 16.04.1936 F/O 16.10.1937 F/Lt. 16.10.1939 (T) Sq.Ldr. 01.12.1940 (T) W/Cdr. 01.03.1942 (WS) W/Cdr. 01.10.1945 (Emgcy List) (reld 27.01.1958; retaining rank of Gp.Capt.) MID 11.06.1942 ? MID 01.01.1945 ?	16.04.1935 commissioned, RAF (General Duties Branch) [short service commission] 15.10.1936 - 02.04.1941 served in India: 09.02.1938 - (10.1940) Personal Assistant to Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Air Forces in India (Air Marshal Sir Philip B. Joubert de la Ferté)  trained and flew Spitfires and served in various locations in the UK such as, Biggin Hill, Wittering, Stamford, Fowimere 16.04.1946     transferred to reserve (and called up for Air Force service)
Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard; Baron created 17.07.1991 (Life Peer), of Woodhall in the county of Lincolnshire Son of late Geoffrey Chevalier Cheshire, DCL, FBA, and Primrose Barstow; married 1st, 1941, Constance Binney (marr. diss.); married 2nd, 1959, (Margaret) Susan Ryder (later Baroness Ryder of Warsaw); one son one daughter.	07.09.1917 Chester - 31.07.1992 Cavendish, Suffolk	P/O (RAFVR) 16.11.1937 [72021] P/O (RAF) 07.01.1938 F/O 07.04.1940, seniority 07.01.1940 (WS) F/Lt. 07.04.1941, seniority 07.01.1941 F/Lt. 01.03.1942 Sq.Ldr. 1942? (A) W/Cdr. ? (A) Gp.Capt. 03.1943 (retd 22.01.1946; on account of medical unfitness for Air Force service) (WS) W/Cdr. 30.09.1943 [reverted to this rank for operational flying] VC 08.09.1944 * OM 06.02.1981 ? DSO 06.12.1940 gallantry displayed in flying operations against the enemy DSO 1941 ? DSO 20.04.1943 ? DFC 07.03.1941 ? MID 17.03.1941 ?	Education: Stowe School; Merton College, Oxford University (2nd Class Honours School of Jurisprudence, 1939) 1936 Oxford University Air Squadron 16.11.1937 joined RAFVR, General Duties Branch 07.10.1939 permanent commission RAF, General Duties Branch trained Hullavington 1940 - 1945 served Bomber Command: 06.1940 - 1941 102 Squadron 1941 35 Squadron 08.1942 - 03.1943 CO 76 Squadron 03.1943 CO RAF Station, Marston Moor 11.1943 - 07.1944 CO 617 Squadron (Dambusters) 1944 attached Eastern Air Command, South­East Asia 1945 British Joint Staff Mission, Washington 15.08.1945 official British observer at dropping of Atomic Bomb on Nagasaki Founder of Cheshire Foundation Homes (270 Homes in 50 countries); Co-founder of Ryder Cheshire Mission for the Relief of Suffering; Founder Chairman, Memorial Fund for Disaster Relief, 1989-; President, SPARKS. Member: Pathfinders Association; Air Crew Association. President, British Society of the Turin Shroud. Hon. LLD: Liverpool, 1973; Manchester Polytechnic, 1979; Nottingham, 1981; Birmingham, 1986; Hon. DCL: Oxon, 1984; Kent, 1986. Variety Club Humanitarian Award (jointly with wife), 1975. Published: Bomber pilot (1943); Pilgrimage to the shroud (1956); The face of victory (1961); The hidden world (1981); The light of many suns (1985); Where is God in all this? (1991). Literature: Russell Braddon, Cheshire, VC : a study of war and peace (1954); Andrew Boyle, No passing glory : the full and authentic biography of Group Captain Cheshire, V.C., D.S.O., D.F.C. (1955); W.W. Russell, New lives for old (1963); Richard Morris, Cheshire : the biography of Leonard Cheshire VC, OM (2000).
* This officer began his operational career in June, 1940. Against strongly-defended targets he soon displayed the courage and determination of an exceptional leader. He was always ready to accept extra risks to ensure success. Defying the formidable Ruhr defences, he frequently released his bombs from below 2,000 feet. Over Cologne in November, 1940, a shell burst inside his aircraft, blowing out one side and starting a fire; undeterred, he went on to bomb his target. About this time, he carried out a number of convoy, patrols in addition to his bombing missions. At the end of his first tour of operational duty in January, 1941, he immediately volunteered for a second. Again, he pressed home his attacks with the utmost gallantry. Berlin, Bremen, Cologne, Duisberg, Essen and Kiel were among the heavily-defended targets which he attacked. When he was posted for  instructional duties in January, 1942, he undertook four more operational missions. He started a third operational tour in August, 1942, when he was given command of a squadron. He led the squadron with outstanding skill on a number of missions, before being appointed in March, 1943, as a station commander. In October, 1943, he undertook a fourth operational tour, relinquishing the rank of Group Captain at his own request so that he could again take part in operations. He immediately set to work as the pioneer of a new method of marking enemy targets involving very low flying. In June, 1944, when marking a target in the harbour at Le Havre in broad daylight and without cloud cover, he dived well below the range of the light batteries before releasing his markerbombs, and he came very near to being destroyed by the strong barrage which concentrated on him. During his fourth tour which ended in July, 1944, Wing Commander Cheshire led his squadron personally on every occasion, always undertaking the most dangerous and difficult task of marking the target alone from a low level in the face of strong defences. Wing Commander Cheshire's cold and calculated acceptance of risks is exemplified by his conduct in an. attack on Munich in April, 1944. This was an experimental attack to test out the new method of target marking at low level against a heavily-defended target situated deep in Reich territory. Munich was selected, at Wing Commander Cheshire's request, because of the formidable nature of its light anti-aircraft and searchlight defences. He was obliged to follow, in bad weather, a direct route which took him over the defences of Augsburg and thereafter he was continuously under fire. As he reached the target, flares were .being released by our high-flying aircraft. He was illuminated from above and below. All guns within range opened fire on him. Diving to 700 feet, he dropped his markers with great precision and began to climb away. So blinding were the searchlights that he almost lost control. He then flew over the city at 1,000 feet to assess the accuracy of his work and direct other aircraft. His own was badly hit by shell fragments but he continued to fly over the target area until he was satisfied that, he had done all in his power to ensure success. Eventually, when he set course for base, the task of disengaging himself from the defences proved even more hazardous than the approach., For a full twelve minutes after leaving the target'area he was under withering fire but he came safely through. Wing Commander Cheshire has now completed a total of 100 missions. In four years of fighting against the bitterest opposition he has maintained a record of outstanding personal achievement, placing himself invariably in the forefront of the battle. What he did in the Munich operation was typical of the careful planning, brilliant, execution and contempt for danger which has established for Wing Commander Cheshire a reputation second to none in Bomber Command.
Chichester, Patrick George	18.03.1901 Barnstaple, Devon -	Sq.Ldr. 01.02.1937 [17241] W/Cdr. ? (T) Gp.Capt. 01.07.1943 (retd 15.09.1947)	14.07.1923 commissioned
Child, John Younger son of Dr. Noel Child, and Elspeth Child (later Guilfoyle), of Shackerley Hall, Albrighton, Wolverhampton.	14.06.1918 - 03.09.1948 [burial from RAF Turnhouse, Edinburgh, locality Musselburgh]	P/O 29.07.1939 [33435] F/O 03.09.1940 (WS) F/Lt. 03.09.1941 F/Lt. 21.05.1946, seniority 29.01.1943 (T) Sq.Ldr. 03.12.1946, seniority 01.07.1944 Sq.Ldr. 01.10.1946 25.02.1947, seniority 01.06.1945	Education: RAF College, Cranwell. 29.07.1939     commissioned, RAF (General Duties Branch) ? - ? ? 08.1948 - 03.09.1948 Commanding Officer, 612 Squadron RAF (Dyce) [Killed in a flying accident in Spitfire FR14 TP240 that crashed near Holmside, Co. Durham. The pilot, who was out of current flying practice and had no instrument flying rating, entered cu-nim cloud whilst flying in formation at 6500 feet. He lost control of the aircraft and it dived steeply into the ground.]
Chrystall, Grenville Jeffrey Howard Married ...; ... children (one son?).	04.05.1918 Dunedin - ?	(A) P/O (prob) 09.01.1938 [40365] P/O 28.10.1938 F/O 28.04.1940 (WS) F/Lt. 28.04.1941 (reld 01.01.1944; on appointment to RNZAF [NZ.2151]) (T) Sq.Ldr. 01.06.1942 (A) W/Cdr. RNZAF ?	09.01.1938     commissioned, RAF (General Duties Branch) [short service commission] 28.10.1941     transferred to reserve (and called up for air force service)       Force 136, SOE Kandy Ceylon
Churchman, Allan Robert	02.01.1896 - 13.01.1970	... ... (T) A/Cdre. 01.06.1943, seniority 01.11.1942	for details see: RAFweb.org
Clark, Hubert Percival "Bert"	1918 Moose Jaw, Manitoba, Canada -	(A) P/O (prob) 13.05.1939 [42106] P/O (prob) 06.11.1939 P/O 13.03.1940 (WS) F/O 06.11.1940 (WS) F/Lt. 06.11.1941 DFC 22.11.1940 * * This pilot has successfully carried out 168 hours operational flying. He has always displayed the utmost coolness and determination in pressing home his attacks. Some of the missions undertaken have been of an arduous nature and under adverse weather conditions. This officer was reported missing on 14th August 1940, and according to the German broadcast, on the night of 18th/19th August 1940, he was reported a Prisoner of War.	Education: in Brandon and Forest, Manitoba 13.05.1939 first commission, RAF (General Duties Branch) [short service commission] ? - 14.08.1940 pilot, 44 Squadron RAF [His Hampden I [P2077 KM-] had taken off 13.08.1940 from Waddington for an operation against Bernburg. Hit by Flak and crashed to the south of Oosthuizen (Noord-Holland, The Netherlands), 18 km ESE of Alkmaar. Captured.] 14.08.1940 - 1945? POW (# 157) in German captivity at Stalag Luft III 13.11.1945 transferred to reserve (dated 13.03.1943) and called up for Air Force service
Clark, William Charles	01.06.1891 - (06?).1954 Reading district, Berkshire	... ... Sq.Ldr. 01.07.1924 W/Cdr. ? Gp.Capt. 01.04.1939 (retd 27.12.1945)	01.04.1918     commissioned, RAF (Stores Branch, later Equipment Branch) ? - ? ?
Clarkson, Bertrand David Son of Hugh Ken and Margaret Thomlin Clarkson, of Edinburgh. His brother, Lt. Alastair Duncan Clarkson, also died on service.	1921 ? - 23.08.1940 (DOW) [age 19] [Edinburgh (Piershill) Cemetery, section J, grave 989]	(A) P/O (prob) 02.09.1939 [42677] P/O (prob) 27.04.1940	02.09.1939 commissioned, RAF (General Duties Branch) [short service commission] ? - 23.08.1940 pilot, 224 Squadron RAF (Coastal Command) [the Hudson I N7244 QX, after having taken off at 12.15 hrs at Leuchars, crashed into a river near Leuchars due to unknown causes; Clarkson died of injuries in St Andrews Cottage Hospital]
Clay, Ralph Arden Lived at Albury, Surrey. Married (02.08.1950, Compton, Surrey) Maj. Diana Bridget Negus, WRAC.	18.04.1908 Burton upon Trent - 04.01.2006 North Cheriton, Somerset	P/O 20.10.1934 [90301] F/O 10.08.1936 F/Lt. 12.03.1940 (T) Sq.Ldr. 01.06.1941 (WS) Sq.Ldr. 01.09.1942 (reld 12.01.1948; retaining the rank of W/Cdr.) (T) W/Cdr. 01.03.1942 MID 01.01.1945 ?	20.10.1934 first commission, Auxiliary Air Force (General Duties Branch): 608 (North Riding) (Bomber) Squadron AuxAF served at Gibraltar, then Malta, then to Egypt, then to "the Middle East", where he was involved in the setting up an establishment to re-assemble aircraft sent out in crates 13.06.1942 transferred, Technical Branch Associate Member of the Institution of Electrical Engineers (A.M.I.E.E.); Associate Member of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (A.M.I.Mech.E.). Emigrated to Northern Rhodesia, employed by Rhokana Corporation (part of Anglo American Mining Corp, Southern Africa) as an electric / mechanical engineer, employed on the design of underground pumping stations for the copper mines.
Clayton, [Sir] Gareth Thomas Butler Son of Thomas and Katherine Clayton. Married (1938) Elisabeth Marian Keates (died 1990); three daughters.	13.11.1914 - 05.02.1992 Polstead, nr Colchester, Essex	(A) P/O (prob) 09.03.1936 [37624] ... ... (T) W/Cdr. 01.07.1943 ... ... Air Marshal 01.07.1969 (retd 10.06.1972)	Education: Rossall School     for details see: RAFweb.org
Cleland, Ralph Eldest son (with two brothers) of Albert Cleland, and Florence Annie Gwillim, of Hereford. His brother F/O Albert Gwillim Cleland, 47 Squadron RAF, was killed in a flying accident in Sudan in 1932. Married ((09?).1935, Cardiff district, Glamorgan) Eleanor Wilhelmina Jones, youngest daughter of W.H. Jones, of Cardiff; two sons.	04.08.1906 Hentland, Ross district, Herefordshire - 20.12.1948 Princess Mary RAF Hospital, Halton, Aylesbury district, Buckinghamshire (formerly of The Stowe House, Whitney-on-Wye, Herefordshire) [St Andrew's Church, Dinedor, Hereford]	Boy 09.1922 [362870] Acm. 2nd cl. 1924 Acm. 1s cl. 08.1925 Sgt. 1928? P/O (prob) 29.05.1931 [05190] P/O 29.05.1932 F/O 29.11.1932 F/Lt. 01.04.1936 Sq.Ldr. 01.12.1938 (T) W/Cdr. 01.03.1941 (WS) W/Cdr. 05.04.1943 W/Cdr. 01.10.1946 (A) Gp.Capt. (1942?) (T) Gp.Capt. 01.07.1944-01.11.1947 CBE 14.06.1945 HM's birthday 45 MID 01.01.1941 ? MID 14.01.1944 ? MID 01.01.1945 ?	09.1922 - 1924 School of Technical Training (Boys), RAF Halton (mustered aircraft hand/fitter aero engine) 1924     Inland Area Aircraft Depot, RAF Henlow, renamed: Home Aircraft Depot 29.07.1927     passed fit for flying training (remustered fitter aero engine/pilot) 1927? - 05.1931 19 Squadron RAF (Duxford) (remustered pilot 10.09.1928) 09.1928? - 09.1928? No. 1 Flying Training School RAF (Netheravon) [for one week only] 29.05.1931     commissioned, RAF (General Duties Branch) [permanent commission] 29.05.1931 - 02.04.1932 29 (Fighter) Squadron RAF (North Weald) (Air Defence Great Britain) (for flying duties) [from 01.03.1932-21.03.1932 training at Central Flying School (Wittering) (inland area), qualifying as instrument flying pilot] 03.04.1932 - 18.09.1932 Seaplane Training Flight, RAF Calshot (coastal area) (qualifying as flying boat pilot) 19.09.1932 - 13.03.1933 204 (Flying Boat) Squadron RAF (Mount Batten, Plymouth) (coastal area) (for flying duties) 14.03.1933 - 10.06.1933 Central Flying School (Wittering) (inland area) (for flying instructors' course; categorized B, 02.1935 from B to A2, 19.03.1937 from A2 to A1) 10.06.1933 - 16.06.1933 No. 3 Flying Training School RAF (Grantham) (inland area) (for flying (flying instructors) duties) 17.06.1933 - 03.08.1933 Oxford University Air Squadron (Air Defence Great Britain) (for temporary duty) 04.08.1933 - 27.08.1933 No. 3 Flying Training School RAF (Grantham) (inland area) (for flying (flying instructors) duties) 28.08.1933 - 13.04.1934 24 (Communications) Squadron RAF (Hendon) (Air Defence Great Britain) (for flying duties) 14.04.1934 - 31.03.1937 No. 4 Flying Training School RAF (Abu Sueir, Egypt) (Middle East) (as flying instructor) [parachute course at the Middle East Depot from 10.08.1936-21.08.1936] 01.04.1937 - 06.10.1938 216 (Bomber Transport) Squadron RAF (Heliopolis, Egypt) (for flying duties) 07.10.1938 - 12.01.1939 No. 1 Depot RAF (24 (Transport) Group RAF) (supernumerary; for return to UK & foreign service leave) 13.01.1939 - 22.01.1939 RAF Station St Athan (24 (Transport) Group RAF) (supernumerary) 23.01.1939 - 12.09.1939 RAF Staff College (1 (Bomber) Group RAF) (for staff college course; qualified psa) 13.09.1939 - 20.09.1939 HQ Advanced Air Striking Force (with British Expeditionary Force, France) (for air staff training duties) 21.09.1939 - 14.01.1940 No. 2 British Air Mission (with British Expeditionary Force, France) (as Officer-in-Charge of Eastern Detachment) 15.01.1940 - 18.06.1940 HQ British Air Force in France (as Officer-in-Charge of Eastern Detachment) [also described as Liaison Officer RAF ("officier de liaison") at the ZOAE (Zone Operation Aérienne Est) at Nancy, France] 06.07.1940 - 10.11.1940 Special Duty List (as duty commander in Command Operations room) 11.11.1940 - 16.02.1941 Directorate of Plans, Office of the Chief of Air Staff, Air Ministry (for duty in Plans 2 branch)  17.02.1941 - 14.04.1942 Directorate of Bomber Operations, Department of the Chief of Air Staff, Air Ministry (for duty in Bomber Operations room) 15.04.1942 - 11.06.1942 54 Operational Training Unit RAF (Charterhall) (supernumerary; for extended pilot's training) 12.06.1942 - 19.07.1942 29 Squadron RAF (West Malling) (supernumerary; pending posting to command) 20.07.1942 - 30.08.1942 Commanding Officer, 29 Squadron RAF (West Malling) (flying Beaufighters) 31.08.1942 - 30.12.1942 333 Group RAF (for special operations in North Africa) (initially for Air Staff Plans, from 05.10.1942 for Air Staff Plans in Liaison Section) 31.12.1942 - 30.04.1943 HQ East Africa Command (Africa) (for Plans in Liaison Section) 01.05.1943 - 03.01.1944 HQ Mediterranean Air Command (Advanced HQ La Marsa, Rear HQ Algiers) (for Air Staff Plans) 03.01.1944 - 14.08.1945 HQ Allied Expeditionary Air Force (for Air Staff Plans), 15.10.1944 renamed: Supreme HQ Allied Expeditionary Force/Air (Rear) (for Air Staff Plans, from 01.01.1945 for Air Staff, from 24.03.1945 as Deputy Assistant Chief of Staff) (06.1944)     Air Representative on staff of Assault Force "J" (Normandy landings; directing air support from HMS Hilary (ocean boarding vessel; HQ ship) (11.1944)     Air Staff Officer (as liaison with 84 Group RAF) on staff of Naval Force "T" (Walcheren landings; directing air support from HMS Kingsmill (Captain class frigate; HQ ship) 15.08.1945 - 15.10.1945 HQ Bomber Command RAF (High Wycombe) (supernumerary) 16.10.1945 - 14.11.1945 RAF Station Ludford Magna (Lincolnshire) (supernumerary; to command) 15.11.1945 - 30.11.1945 RAF Station Lindholme (supernumerary) 01.12.1945 - 10.03.1947 Commanding Officer, RAF Station Lindholme (supernumerary) (flew medical supplies and food in severe winter in a Lancaster. RAF Brize Norton (temporarily blinded 1946) 11.03.1947 - 16.01.1948 HQ Bomber Command RAF (High Wycombe) (supernumerary) 17.01.1948 - 25.01.1948 1 Personnel Holding Unit RAF (supernumerary; pending posting) 26.01.1948 - 17.02.1948 HQ Training Command RAF (Brize Norton) (for administration) 18.02.1948 - 11.07.1948 RAF Station Brize Norton (supernumerary; pending establishment) 12.07.1948 - 20.12.1948 Central Photographic Establishment RAF (Benson) (initially supernumerary, from 19.07.1948 as Senior Air Staff Officer & acting Commanding Officer, from 11.12.1948 supernumerary [non-effective strength]) [died from heart failure (hypertension), considered to be as a result of WW2 service]
Clifford, George Richard Melville Eldest son of the Rev. Richard Frederick Martin Clifford (1874-?), and Frances Georgina Martin (1874-?). Married 1st (1930) Dorothy Gordon Black (12.09.1906-23.01.1962), daughter of William Black; three daughters. Married 2nd (04.1963) Daphne Speechly.	14.03.1903 - 31.03.1971 Maidenhead, Berkshire	P/O 15.08.1928 [16091] Sq.Ldr. 01.12.1936 W/Cdr. 01.01.1940 (retd 14.03.1953; retaining rank of Gp.Capt.) (T) Gp.Capt. 01.12.1941	15.08.1928     commissioned, RAF (General Duties Branch)
Clift, Victor Hugh	28.05.1897 Stoke Damerel, Devon -	P/O 01.04.1918 [15130] F/O 17.08.1921 F/Lt. ? Sq.Ldr. 01.10.1937 (T) W/Cdr. 01.06.1940 (WS) W/Cdr. 03.01.1942 (retd 11.02.1947; retaining rank of Gp.Capt.) MID 01.01.1941 ?	01.04.1918 first commission RAF (General Duties Branch) 17.08.1921 short service commission (1923) 267 Squadron RAF 26.11.1924 permanent commission ... - ... ...
Clinch, Denys Stanley Son of ... Clinch, and ... Mills. Married Patricia May Raggett; one son.	24.03.1919 Sleaford district, Lincolnshire - 29.10.1945 (accident) [age 26] [Kranji War Cemetery, Singapore, 26.C.16]	Cpl. ? [569842] (A) P/O (prob) 15.08.1941, seniority 08.07.1941 [46369] P/O (prob) 05.09.1941 P/O 15.08.1941 (WS) F/O 05.09.1942, seniority 29.07.1942 (T) F/Lt. 01.01.1944 (WS) F/Lt. 06.10.1945 (A) Sq.Ldr. ?	? - 08.1941 No. 76 Course, Officers' School RAF 15.08.1941     commissioned, RAF (Technical Branch) [emergency commission]       served UK, Iceland, North Africa, Sicily, India & Indo China with 43 Group, 86 MU, 63 MU, 106 R&SU, 175 Wing, BHQ Calcutta, SHQ Alipore, 347 Wing, HQ 231 Group
Coaker, Charles Francis Carey Son of Dr. F.W.J. Coaker, of Battlefield, Bromsgrove. Married ((06?).1933, St George Hanover Square district, London) Audrey A. Mulroney.	(03?).1903 Bromsgrove district - (03?).1954 Bristol district, Gloucestershire	P/O 26.09.1925, seniority 26.09.1924 [05119] F/O 26.03.1926 F/Lt. 14.05.1930 Sq.Ldr. 01.04.1937 (retd 29.01.1947; medical unfitness; retaining the rank of W/Cdr.) (T) W/Cdr. 01.03.1940	26.09.1925     permanent commission RAF (General Duties Branch)       qualified at a specialist course in engineering 24.04.1940     tranferred to Technical Branch 07.04.1942     transferred to General Duties Branch 29.06.1944     tranferred to Technical Branch (1945)     stationed at Pershore, Worcestershire
Cocks, Adrian Harry William James	07.11.1904 Devonport, Devon - 12.1986 West Super Mare, Somerset	Sq.Ldr. 01.04.1937 [16149]	qualified at specialist signals course; additionally qualified at university course in electrical engineering and wireless telegraphy
Cochrane, Sir Ralph Alexander	24.02.1895 Springfield, Fife - 17.12.1977 Burford, Oxfordshire	(A) Air Marshal 15.02.1944	for details, see: www.rafweb.org & the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography
Coe, Richard Son of Walter John and Kate Coe. Husband of Hazel Pauline Coe, of Montreal, Province of Quebec, Canada.	1912 ? Winfield, British Columbia, Canada - 10.01.1940 (KIA} [age 28] [Kirkby Wharfe (St John the Baptist) Churchyard Extension, Yorkshire, A.4]	(A) P/O (prob) 21.12.1936 [39273] P/O 12.10.1937 F/O 12.04.1939	21.12.1936 first commission, RAF (General Duties Branch) [short service commission] 09.1939 - 11.1939 pilot, 56 Squadron RAF (North Weald) 11.1939 - 10.01.1940 pilot, 242 Squadron RAF (Church Fenton) [killed when the Hurricane he was ferrying from St. Athan (South Wales) to Turnhill crashed during a storm while attempting to force land at Appleton (near Warrington, Lancashire)]
Coggle, Cyril Kenneth Joseph Married ((12?).1927, Nottingham district, Nottinghamshire) Phylis M.M. Anstey.	28.05.1903 Ilkeston, Basford district, Derbyshire - (03?).1960 Basford district, Nottinghamshire	Sq.Ldr. 01.04.1937 [16092]
Cohu, John Messurier	29.04.1904 - 05.2003 South Hams, Hampshire	P/O 15.03.1924 [18205] Sq.Ldr. 01.02.1937 A/Cdre. 01.01.1950 (retd 10.05.1957; retaining rank of Air Vice Marshal) CBE	Education: psa 15.03.1924     commissioned, RAF (General Duties Branch)       qualified at a specialist course in engineering
Cole, George Geoffrey Son (with four brothers and one sister) of George William Cole (1862-1935), and Sarah Anne Eeles (1867-1931), of Elham, Canterbury, Kent. Married (Scotland) Robina Paterson Duncan (01.05.1901 - 11.1985); two daughters, one son.	16.10.1901 Elham, Kent - 03.1988 High Peak district, Cheshire	Wt.Offr. ? [157008] F/O (prob) 29.08.1940, seniority 14.03.1940 [44467] F/O ? (WS) F/Lt. 23.03.1941 F/Lt. (prob) ? F/Lt. 29.08.1941 (T) Sq.Ldr. 01.07.1943, seniority 01.06.1942 (WS) Sq.Ldr. 09.04.1945 Sq.Ldr. 24.07.1947, seniority01.09.1945 (A) W/Cdr. (1945) W/Cdr. 01.07.1948, seniority 01.07.1947 (retd 24.07.1954) MBE 01.01.1946 New Year 46 MID 24.09.1941 ?	29.08.1940     commissioned, RAF (Technical Branch) [emergency commission]       served in East Africa 24.07.1947     extended service commission 01.06.1948     permanent commission
Cole, Robert Arthur Alexander	? -	Sq.Ldr. 01.02.1937 [17158]
Collingwood, Cuthbert John	12.01.1901 Alnwick, Northumberland - 01.1996 Northumberland North First	P/O 21.12.1920 [16003] Sq.Ldr. 01.04.1936 W/Cdr. 01.04.1941 (A) Gp.Capt. ? (retd 28.04.1948) OBE ? ? DFC ? ?	Education: psa. 21.12.1920     commissioned, RAF (General Duties Branch)
Collins, William Edwin	? -	F/Sgt. ? [364796] (A) P/O (prob) 15.08.1941, seniority 15.07.1941 [46362] ... ...	? - 08.1941 No. 76 Course, Officers' School RAF 15.08.1941     commissioned, RAF (Technical Branch) [emergency commission]
Colquhoun, James Woods	20.03.1904 Kensington, London, Middlesex - 05.1985 Wallingford, Berkshire	Sq.Ldr. 01.12.1936 [17242]	Education: psa qualified at a specialist course in engineering
Combe, Andrew Nicholson Younger son of Robert George Nicholson Combe, MA, LLM (c. 1879-1941), barrister-at-law, and Hilda Ada Engelhardt (1880-1973), of Blakeney, Norfolk. Engaged (03.1937; cancelled 09.1937) Valerie Lockhart, younger daughter of Capt. & Mrs Ian Lockhart, of Kingswode Hoe, Colchester, Essex. Married (13.05.1939, Christ Church, Kensington, London; divorced 1953) Eileen Marion Jessop (26.08.1917-13.12.2006), elder daughter of the late Mr & Mrs A.W. Jessop, of Alexandria, Egypt; one son, four daughters.	07.07.1911 Kensington, London - 03.1978 Cromer, North Walsham district, Norfolk	P/O 23.07.1932 [26258] F/O 23.01.1934 F/Lt. 01.10.1936 Sq.Ldr. 01.04.1939 (A) W/Cdr. 1940? (T) W/Cdr. 01.03.1941 (WS) W/Cdr. 06.12.1943 W/Cdr. 01.10.1946 (retd 29.09.1957; retaining rank of Gp.Capt.) (T) Gp.Capt. 01.07.1944-01.11.1947 AFC 28.04.1939 for his participation in the RAF long distance record flight between Egypt & Australia 11.1938, in Vickers Wellesley aircraft [for which he also got the FAI - De La Vaulx Medal of the Royal Aero Club] BSM 15.03.1946 ?	Education: RAF College, Cranwell (winner of Sword of Honour and J.A. Chance Memorial Prize); qualified at specialist armaments course, Air Armamament School, Eastchurch (06.01.1936-02.1937). 23.07.1932     commissioned, RAF (General Duties Branch) 23.07.1932     RAF Base, Calshot 05.03.1934     203 (FB) Squadron RAF (Basrah, Iraq) ? - 28.06.1940 71 Wing RAF 29.06.1940 - 02.02.1941 Commanding Officer, 218 (Gold Coast) Squadron RAF (Mildenhall)       posted to the United States c. 1953     Officer-in-Charge of Administration, RAF Station Habbaniya (Iraq) Chief Planning Engineer for Aeropleen Ltd, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, 1960.
Coningham, Sir Arthur	19.01.1895 Brisbane, Australia - 30.01.1948 plane crash north-east of Bermuda	... ... Air Marshal 1946 (retd 1947) KCB, 1942; KBE, 1946; CB 1941; DSO 1917; MC; DFC; AFC	... - ... ... 03.07.1939 Air Officer Commanding, No. 4 Group RAF (Bomber Command (CB)) 30.07.1941 Air Officer Commanding, No. 204 Group RAF 21.10.1941 Air Officer Commanding, AHQ Western Desert (worked with 8th Army in North Africa (KCB)) 01.03.1943 Air Officer Commanding, 1st Tactical Air Force (French North Africa & operations, Sicily and Italy) 21.01.1944 - 1945 Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief, 2nd Tactical Air Force (NW Europe) 06.10.1945 - 1947 Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Flying Training Command Literature: Vincent Orange, Coningham : a biography of Air Marshal Sir Arthur Coningham, KCB, KBE, DSO, MC, DFC, AFC (1990)
Constable-Maxwell, Michael Hugh Seventh son out of 13 children of Hon. Bernard Constable-Maxwell, fourth son of the 10th Lord Herries, and Alice Mary Charlotte Fraser, second daughter of the 13th Lord Lovat. Married (20.01.1962) Susan Joan Davies; two sons.	03.06.1917 Beauly, Inverness-shire, Scotland - 15.08.2000	P/O 07.10.1939, seniority 07.07.1938 [36219] F/O 07.04.1940, seniority 07.01.1940 (WS) F/Lt. 07.04.1941, seniority 07.01.1941 (T) Sq.Ldr. 01.03.1942 Sq.Ldr. 20.11.1942, seniority 01.03.1942 (retd 14.04.1949; retaining rank of W/Cdr.) (A) W/Cdr. ? Sq.Ldr. 01.11.1952, seniority 18.09.1946 W/Cdr. 01.01.1955 (retd 03.06.1964) DSO 22.09.1944 * DFC 18.05.1943 ** MID 11.02.1947 SE Asia * Since the award of the Distinguished Flying Cross this officer has completed many sorties. As commander of his squadron his high courage and sense of duty have been a great inspiration to all those under his command. His consistent 1 good work has produced a high standard of efficiency in the squadron, which has destroyed numerous enemy aircraft during operations in Normandy. ** This officer has a fine operational record. He fought in the Battle of Britain, destroying 1 and probably destroying another enemy aircraft. Since the beginning of 1943, he has taken part in many operations. In attacks on the enemy's lines of communication he has damaged a number of locomotives. In February, 1943, he pressed home an attack on a power station, causing much destruction. Squadron Leader Constable-Maxwell has displayed great skill and inspiring leadership.	Education: Ampleforth; Hertford College, Oxford (MA) 07.10.1939 commissioned, RAF (General Duties Branch) [permanent commission] 01.1940 - 01.1941 56 Squadron RAF (North Weald) 01.1941 - 10.1941 flying instructor 10.1941 - 08.1942 604 (County of Middlesex) Squadron RAuxAF 08.1942 - 12.1942 54 Operational Training Unit RAF 12.1942 - 04.1943 Flight commander, 264 Squadron RAF 04.1943 - 07.1944 Commanding Officer, 604 (County of Middlesex) Squadron RAuxAF 07.1944 - (12?).1944 fighter staff and training duties (12?).1944 - 1945? Commanding Officer, 84 Squadron RAF (Charra, Bengal) 1945? - 1947? Commanding Officer, 60 Squadron RAF (Malaya & Java) Entered Ampleforth Abbey as a novice monk, Brother Paul, and for short periods taught in the school, 1949-1951. 07.10.1951 - 01.11.1952 Flying Officer, RAFVR (Training Branch) 01.11.1952 resumed permanent commission, RAF (General Duties Branch) Commanding Officer, 23 Squadron RAF 1956 - 1958 Commanding Officer, Oxford University Air Squadron 1958 - 03.1960 Central Fighter Establishment 03.1960 - 09.1960 commander of Gan, an RAF staging post in the Indian Ocean ? - 1964 posting in Scottish Command Joined Robert Stuart, the family business (contractor to various aircraft companies), being Chairman at the time of his death. Literature: Alex Revell, The vivid air : Gerald and Michael Constable Maxwell, fighter pilots in both world wars (1978)
Cooke, Charles Alfred	? -	Sgt. ? [580219] P/O (prob) 01.04.1940 [43634] P/O ? (WS) F/O (prob) 05.01.1941 F/O 01.04.1941 (WS) F/Lt. 05.01.1942 F/Lt. 01.01.1947, seniority 01.09.1945 (A) Sq.Ldr. (1942) Sq.Ldr. 01.11.1947, seniority 01.08.1947 (retd 11.07.1958) DFC 13.10.1942 * * This officer has been engaged on operational flying since the war began and has completed many sorties. He fought in the Battle of Britain and, on one occasion, he participated in an engagement against a very large force of enemy fighters and bombers. During.the battle, he probably destroyed several fighters before his own aircraft was so badly damaged that he was forced to leave it by parachute. One night in July, 1942, he skilfully intercepted a Junkers 88 and destroyed it. This officer has always displayed fine fighting qualities.	01.04.1940 commissioned, RAF (General Duties Branch) [emergency commission] (09.1940) 66 Squadron RAF [Baled out of his Spitfire I (R6689) on 04.09.1940 at 13:40hrs. He was slightly wounded and had been attacked by a Bf 109 over Ashford, Kent.] (1942)     264 Squadron RAF 01.01.1947     commissioned, RAF (Secretarial Branch) [extended service commission] 15.04.1948     commissioned, RAF (Secretarial Branch) [permanent commission]
Coole, Arthur Morris	24.07.1909 - 1996 still alive	F/Sgt. ? [365680] (A) P/O (prob) 30.05.1941, seniority 20.03.1941 [45863] P/O (prob) 02.08.1941 P/O 30.05.1942 (WS) F/O 02.08.1942, seniority 23.05.1942 (WS) F/Lt. 21.11.1943 (T) F/Lt. 03.12.1946, seniority 01.01.1944 F/Lt. 05.06.1947, seniority 01.09.1945 (retd 04.08.1958; retaining rank of Sq.Ldr.)	30.05.1941 first commission, RAF (Technical Branch) [emergency commission] 05.06.1947     extended service commission 05.04.1952 permanent commission
Cooper, Rowland	? -	Sq.Ldr. 01.12.1936 [16189]	Education: psa qualified at a specialist course in engineering; additionally qualified at university course in engineering
Cooper, William Charles Son of Charles Edward Cooper, of Falmouth, Cornwall. Married (1928) Gweneth Barnes Hughes, daughter of Dr. Barnes Hughes.	03.07.1906 Nottingham district, nottinghamshire - 10.1984 Newark district, Nottinghamshire	P/O 11.12.1926 [16241] F/O 11.06.1928 F/Lt. 01.04.1932 Sq.Ldr. 01.07.1938 (T) W/Cdr. 01.12.1940 (WS) W/Cdr. 09.04.1943 (T) Gp.Capt. 01.07.1943 Gp.Capt. ? (retd 01.10.1946; retaining rank of A/Cdre.) (T) A/Cdre. 01.01.1946 CBE 13.06.1946 HM's birthday 46	Education: Falmouth Grammar School; RAF Cadet College, Cranwell (Air Ministry prize in humanistic subjects); St Catherine's College, Cambridge University (BA 1933, MA 1945). 1922     joined RAF as a Boy Mechanic 11.12.1926 commissioned, RAF (General Duties Branch) 11.12.1926     9 Squadron RAF (Manston) 26.07.1930     Electrical and Wireless School, Cranwell 30.07.1931     Cambridge University Air Squadron 25.07.1933     13 (A.C.) Squadron RAF (Netheravon) 30.08.1935     HQ RAF Iraq (Hinaidi) 27.07.1937     No. 1 Anti-Aircraft Co-operation Unit, Biggin Hill 24.04.1940     transferred, RAF (Technical Branch) (10.1940)     attached for special duty, Royal Aircraft Establishment (South Farnborough, Hampshire)  1943 - 1945 Deputy Director of Communications Development, Ministry of Aircraft Production 1945 - 1946 Director of Communications Development, Ministry of Supply Factory manager of Ericsson Telephones Ltd. of Beeston, Nottinghamshire. MIEE. MBRIE. Chairman and managing director, Manlove Alliott and Company, Engineers, 1956-1964.
Costa, Rowland	? -	Sq.Ldr. 01.12.1936 [16189]	Education: psa qualified at a specialist course in engineering; additionally qualified at university course in engineering
Costin, William Alexander	17.01.1907 - (12?).1973 Preston district, Lancashire	Wt.Offr. ? [370014] F/O (prob) 18.07.1941, seniority 28.04.1941 [46198] (WS) F/O ? F/Lt. RAF 01.09.1945 (reverted to retd 01.10.1952)	? - 07.1941 No. 72 Course, Officers' School RAF 18.07.1941     commissioned, RAF (Administrative and Special Duties Branch) [emergency commission] ?     RAF (Equipment Branch)
Cousins, Arthur Robert Only son (with one sister) of Lt.Col. Arthur George Cousins, CBE (1882-1949), and Kate Riches, of Henley-on-Thames. Married (16.04.1936, Bix Church, Henley-on-Thames) Iris Mary Formby (1914 - ), only child of Rev. Dr. Charles Wykeham Formby, and Doris Marjorie Woodhouse, of Henley-on-Thames; one son.	09.01.1911 Finchley, Middlesex - 12.1990 Cirencester district, Gloucestershire	(A) P/O (prob) 31.08.1939 [91104] P/O 02.12.1939 (WS) F/O 02.12.1940 F/Lt. 02.12.1941 (retd 09.01.1956; retaining rank of Sq.Ldr.) (A) Sq.Ldr. (1945) Comdn 07.09.1945 for valuable service in the air	Journalist. Gained aviator's certificate (No. 9928) on a D.H. Moth 60 X. 75 h.p. Cirrus II, taken at Reading Aero Club, 30.06.1931. 31.08.1939     commissioned, 500 (County of Kent) Squadron, AuxAF (General Duties Branch) [emergency commission]
Cowan, Neville Lawrence Roy	27.12.1919 Hastings, New Zealand - 12.07.1985 Hastings, New Zealand	P/O 20.07.1940 [44229] (WS) F/O 20.07.1941 (WS) F/Lt. 20.07.1942 (reld 21.07.1945; on appointment to RNZAF) F/O 18.10.1947, seniority 01.09.1945 (WS) F/Lt. 18.10.1947, seniority 20.02.1944 F/Lt. 29.10.1948 Sq.Ldr. 01.07.1953 (retd 11.02.1959) DFC 07.04.1942 * 39|45 St - - Afr St - - Def M - - WM 39|45 - - GenSM - & clasp Malaya MID 04.05.1954 Malaya * Flying Officer Cowan has carried out 48 operational sorties against objectives in Germany and Libya and targets in the Mediterranean area. He has made 13 attacks on Bengasi. He once brought his aeroplane safely to his base, although one engine had failed. At all times he has shown great keenness and efficiency and complete disregard of enemy opposition.	Accountant. 20.07.1940     commissioned, RAF (General Duties Branch) [short service commission] (1942)     148 Squadron RAF (DFC) 20.07.1945     transferred to reserve (and called up for air force service) 18.10.1947     extended service commission 29.10.1948     permanent commission
Cozens, Henry Iliffe	13.05.1904 Lewisham, Greater London, Kent - 21.06.1995 Banbury, Oxfordshire	Sq.Ldr. 01.12.1936 [17205] A/Cdre. ? ? CB ? ? AFC ? ?	Education: psa qualified at a specialist course in engineering; additionally qualified at university course in engineering
Craig, George Dudley	13.09.1914 Bangkok, Thailand - 1974	P/O 28.05.1937 [90285] F/O 28.11.1938 F/Lt. 03.09.1940 (reld 27.07.1947; retaining rank of Sq.Ldr.) A/Sq.Ldr. ? F/O 27.07.1947, seniority 30.05.1947 F/Lt. 06.02.1950 OBE 26.07.1946 distinguished service while POW * MID 28.12.1945 distinguished service while POW * Squadron Leader Craig was captured in November 1941, and imprisoned in various camps in Germany. In 1942 he attempted to walk out of the camp at Stalag Luft III, disguised as a German guard, but was unsuccessful. Whilst at Oflag XXIB Squadron Leader Craig took part in a tunnel break in which 36 officers escaped. With a companion he walked south towards Gneisen, but was recaptured 3 days later by Mihtary Police. Throughout his imprisonment Squadron Leader Craig devoted his energy and ability to escaping and intelligence activities.	Education: Winchester College and Pembroke College, Cambridge (BA Law 1936; MA 1940) Practised in a solicitors’ office. 28.05.1937     commissioned, AuxAF (General Duties Branch) (mobilized 24.08.1939) 28.05.1937 - 1940 607 (County of Durham) Squadron, AuxAF (Usworth, nr Sunderland, from 10.09.1939 Acklington, Northumberland, from 15.11.1939 Vitry-en-Artois (France), from 22.05.1940 Croydon, from 08.09.1940 Tangmere, Sussex) 1940 - 31.03.1941 controller, RAF Tangmere (Sussex) 01.04.1941 - 04.11.1941 Commanding Officer, 607 (County of Durham) Squadron, AuxAF (Skitten, near Wick, Scotland, from 20.08.1941 Martlesham Heath, Suffolk, later Manston, Kent) [shot down by AA in Hurricane ‘L’ whilst making a low-level attack on Le Touquet airfield and captured] 04.11.1941 - 05.1945 POW in German captivity (Dulag Luft, near Frankfurt, then Stalag Luft I near the Baltic town of Barth), then Stalag Luft III, then Oflag XXIB at Schubin; several escape attempts) 27.07.1947 commissioned, reconstituted AuxAF (Secretarial Branch) 06.02.1950 transferred, RAuxAF (Fighter Control Branch) ? - 24.07.1957 RAuxAF Reserve of Officers Returned to continue his law practice, later becoming a partner. Deputy Lieutenant (DL), Northumberland, 02.02.1968.
Crawford, James Stuart "Jim"	31.05.1921 - 06.11.2007	P/O 20.02.1943 [55019] ... ... Sq.Ldr. 01.07.1962 (retd 26.07.1971)	20.02.1943     commissioned, RAF (General Duties Branch)
Cribb, Peter Henry Son (with four siblings) of Charles Bertram Cribb (1870-1947), a woollen merchant, and Ethel Brown (1874-1966). Married 1st (07.1939, Wharfedale, West Riding of Yorkshire; divorced 1949) Patricia Grace Walter (04.01.1921 - 17.05.1978), daughter (with one sister and two brothers) of Geoffrey Charles Walter (1897-1976), bank manager, and Marion Elizabeth Victoria Stansfield (1897-1985); one daughter, one son. Patricia Cribb remarried (1949) Ewart W. Macdonald. Married 2nd (19.12.1949, Kensington, London) Vivienne Janet Peniston Perry (22.06.1921 - 29.03.2012), daughter (with one sister and one brother) of Samuel Thomas James Perry (1893-1981), and Edith Valerie Cooper (1889-1979); three sons.	28.09.1918 Bradford, Yorkshire Dales - 20.06.2011 Merriwa, Western Australia	P/O 30.07.1938 [33360] (WS) F/O 30.01.1940 (A) F/Lt. 09.07.1940 (WS) F/Lt. 30.01.1941 (A) Sq.Ldr. 09.1941 (T) Sq.Ldr. 01.06.1942 (WS) Sq.Ldr. 28.12.1942 Sq.Ldr. 01.06.1943 (A) W/Cdr. 28.06.1942? (WS) W/Cdr. 21.02.1945 (A) Gp.Capt. 09.09.1944 ... ... A/Cdre. 01.01.1962 (retd 28.09.1966) CBE 01.01.1967 New Year 1967 DSO 12.01.1943 ? DSO 23.03.1945 ? DFC 26.06.1942 ?	Education: RAF College, Cranwell (09.1936-07.1938). 30.07.1938     commissioned, RAF (General Duties Branch) 30.07.1938 - 27.08.1940 pilot, 58 Squadron RAF 27.08.1940 - 01.05.1941 Station Navigation Officer, RAF Linton 01.05.1941 - 15.06.1941 Flight Commander, 104 Squadron RAF 15.06.1941 - 08.12.1941 instructor, 22 Operational Training Unit RAF (Wellesbourne) 08.12.1941 - 17.01.1943 'B' Flight Commander, 35 Squadron RAF [attached 28 Conversion Flight RAF 10-15.12.1941] 17.01.1943 - 09.05.1944 Officer Commanding, Bombing Development Unit (Newmarket) 09.05.1944 - 25.07.1944 'B' Flight Commander, 35 Squadron RAF 25.07.1944 - 11.1944 Commanding Officer, 582 Squadron RAF [Master Bomber at the breaching of the sea dykes at Walcheren Island 03.10.1944] 11.1944 - 08.1945 Commanding Officer, RAF Little Staughton 08.1945 - 10.1945 184 Wing RAF (Strategic Air Force East Asia Command, Burma) ... - ... ...
Cridland, John Ryan Son of Henry James Cridland (died 1944) and Rachel Mary Cridland, of Bristol. Married (29.06.1940, Bristol) Jean Patricia Croom-Johnson (born 1920) [she re-married 02.05.1944 Lt.Col. Alan Russell, London Scottish]; one son.	03.12.1910 Bristol, Gloucestershire - 31.05.1943 [age 32] [Medjez-el-Bab War Cemetery, Tunisia, 18.D.9]	Army: 2nd Lt. 29.06.1931 Lt. 29.06.1934 (reld 20.07.1936) RAF: P/O 05.07.1938 [90459] F/O 05.01.1940 (WS) F/Lt. 05.01.1941 (T) Sq.Ldr. 01.03.1942 (WS) Sq.Ldr. 09.02.1943 (A) W/Cdr. ?	Education: Radley College (1924-1928) Worked in the family firm called "Cridland and Rose" which made boots and shoes. late Cadet Corporal, Radley College Contingent, Junior Division, Officer Training Corps 29.06.1931 - 20.07.1936 commissioned, 4th (City of Bristol) Battalion The Gloucestershire Regiment - Territorial Army 05.07.1938 first commission, Auxiliary Air Force (General Duties Branch) 05.07.1938 - ? 501 (County of Gloucester) Squadron AAF (Filton) (fought in the battle for France) ? - 17.02.1941 No. 57 Operational Training Unit (OTU) (based RAF Hawarden (Flintshire, Wales)) 18.02.1941 - ? 501 (County of Gloucester) Squadron AAF (Filton) trained fighter pilots somewhere up near Chester ? - 31.05.1943 liaison officer in North Africa
Croce, Frank Edgar Married ((12?).1937, Portsmouth district, Hampshire) ... Sheppard.	25.11.1913 - 02.1991 Portsmouth district, Hampshire	F/Cadet 09.1933 P/O 27.07.1935 [33162] F/O 27.01.1937 F/Lt. 27.01.1939 (T) Sq.Ldr. 01.09.1940 Sq.Ldr. 14.04.1942, seniority 01.09.1940 (T) W/Cdr. 01.12.1941-01.11.1947 W/Cdr. 01.07.1948 (retd 26.11.1963; own request; retaining rank of Gp.Capt.)	Education: RAF College, Cranwell. ? - 09.1933 Aircraft Apprentice, No. 1 School of Technical Training (Apprentices) RAF (Halton) 27.07.1935     commissioned, RAF (General Duties Branch) 26.11.1936     No. 2 Flying Training School RAF (Digby) 24.04.1940     transferred, Technical Branch 06.06.1943     transferred, General Duties Branch 26.12.1944     transferred, Technical Branch 09.1956 HQ Coastal Command (for technical staff duties) 05.10.1960     Department of Chief of the Air Staff
Cromar, Reginald Son of ... Cromar, and ... Morgan. Married ((03?).1942, Brighton district, Sussex) Ivy Owen (née Pugh-Jones) (26.05.1904 - 04.08.1987); ... children.	02.05.1914 Nuneaton district, Warwickshire - 04.1989 Brighton district, Sussex	Sgt. ? [521756] P/O (prob) 08.09.1942 [49843] (WS) F/O (prob) 08.03.1943 (WS) F/Lt. 08.09.1944 F/Lt. 01.01.1950 (retd 29.08.1964; own request)	08.09.1942     commissioned, RAF (General Duties Branch) [emergency commission] 01.01.1950     commissioned, RAF (Education Branch) [short service commission] 01.01.1955     commissioned, RAF (General Duties Branch) [permanent commission]
Crompton, Ralph Kenyon "Ken" First son of Ralph Crompton, and Josephine Helen Kenyon, of Betton Hall, Market Drayton. Brother of W/Cdr. Philipp Richardson Crompton, RAFVR, and Sq.Ldr. John anthony Crompton, RAFVR. Married ((03?).1939, St Boniface, Bunbury, Crewe district, Cheshire) Ellen Mawdsley "Lell" Paterson ((12?).1917 - ), daughter of John C. Paterson, and Katherine L. Dobell, of Oaklands, Tarporley, Cheshire. Lell Crompton remarried (15.04.1946, Singapore) Lt.Cdr. Anthony d'Evelyn Trevor Sangster, RN.	18.03.1916 Bury district, Lancashire - 02.06.1940 (KIA) [age 24] [Etaples Military Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France, 46.C.17]	P/O 13.11.1937 [90361] F/O 13.05.1939	Education: Charterhouse (Verites House; long quarter 1930-oration quarter 1933) 13.11.1937     commissioned, RAuxAF (General Duties Branch) 13.11.1937 - 02.06.1940 pilot, 611 (West Lancashire) Squadron RAF [While on patrol over Dunkirk in Spitfire N3064, he was attacked and shot down by an enemy ME 109 fighter.]
Crosbie, Leonard John Eldest son (with one sister and three brothers) of William Robert Crosbie (1873-1948), and Mabel Harriet Stone (1877-1910). Married (25.06.1935, Heswall, Wirral district, Cheshire) Audrey Lillian Parry (07.09.1902 - 05.03.1984), daughter (with one sister) of Herbert Hill Parry (1874-1956), and Lilian Sarah Wright (1872-1943); no children.	26.10.1903 Midland Junction, Western Australia, Australia - 22.06.1946 [Singapore Memorial, column 459]	P/O (prob) 11.04.1930 [29064] P/O 11.04.1931 F/O 11.10.1931 F/Lt. 11.10.1935 Sq.Ldr. 01.10.1938 (T) W/Cdr. 01.12.1940 (WS) W/Cdr. 18.03.1944 (T) Gp.Capt. 01.01.1944 39|45 St - - Def M - - WM 39|45 - - MID 24.09.1941 ? MID 02.06.1943 ? MID 14.01.1944 ? IndGSM - - CorM - -	Education: Midland Junction State School; Perth Modern School. Apprentice in the Royal Australian Navy Wireless Workshops located in Randwick, Sydney, 1919-1924. Was a manager with National Electrical Engineering Co. NZ branch remaining with them until 1929 except for a short stint working in radio in Auckland New Zealand about 1926. November 1929 sailed from Wellington aboard the “Tamaroa” for England arriving at Southampton 3 December 1929. 11.04.1930     commissioned, RAF (General Duties Branch) [short service commission] 11.04.1930     RAF Depot (for short discipline course) 26.04.1930 - 24.03.1931 No. 3 Flying Training School RAF (Grantham) (for flying training) 07.04.1931     32 (Fighter) Squadron RAF (for flying duties) 23.01.1932     84 (Bomber) Squadron RAF (Iraq) (for flying duties) (17.10.1932-03.11.1932 instrument flying course at No. 4 Flying Training School RAF) 23.04.1934 - 22.06.1935 Electrical and Wireless School RAF (for specialist signals course) 18.07.1935     RAF Station Northolt (for signals duties; till 01.08.1935 supernumerary) [14.08.1935 granted permanent commission] 13.08.1937     111 (Fighter) Squadron RAF (for flying duties) 01.10.1937     23 (Fighter) Squadron RAF (for flying duties) 05.03.1938     1 (Indian) Group RAF (for signals duties) 05.08.1938     Headquarters (HQ) RAF India (for signals duties) 27.11.1938     No. 1 Depot RAF (supernumerary; for leave) 23.01.1939 - 08.1939 RAF Staff College, Andover (for Staff College course; psa) 25.08.1939     Headquarters (HQ) Training Command RAF (for signals duties) 29.09.1939     Headquarters (HQ) Bomber Command RAF (for signals duties) 12.05.1942     Headquarters (HQ) 3 Group RAF (supernumerary; for signals duties) 18.09.1943     Commanding Officer, RAF Station Feltwell 24.07.1944     Air Staff Officer, Headquarters (HQ) 222 Group RAF [possibly incorrectly dated appointment; see 25.03.1945] 10.11.1944     Commanding Officer, RAF Station Wratting Common 25.03.1945     Chief Telecommunications Officer, Headquarters (HQ) Air Command South East Asia (ACSEA) 26.04.1946     Group Captain - Signals (Plans), Headquarters (HQ) Air Command South East Asia (ACSEA) 18.06.1946 - 22.06.1946 Air Headquarters (AHQ) India (supernumerary; pending posting; missing, believed killed, off the coast of Burma, while in transit with 353 Squadron RAF from Singapore to Delhi *) * Group Captain Crosbie was a passenger in a No. 353 Squadron (RAF) Expeditor aircraft which took off from Mergui, Burma on a ferry flight through to India on 22 June 1946. The aircraft was last seen entering cloud off the Burma coast between Tavoy and Mergui, but it failed to reach its destination. When the aircraft was reported missing search patrols interrogated a Headsman of a Burma village who informed the patrol that the aircraft had crashed into the sea about 8 miles from the shore. The Headsman produced a damaged log book (Stuart). A later patrol between Tavoy and Mergui found a valise which had been washed ashore with the name ‘Allard’ marked on it. The villager stated to this patrol that the aircraft was seen flying low, it exploded and fell into the sea. The crew members of the Expeditor were: Flying Officer William Stanley Allard (186359) (RAFVR) (Pilot), Flying Officer Donald Ian Paul Stuart (201103) (RAFVR) (Navigator).
Cross, Ian Kingston Pembroke   Younger son of Pembroke Henry Cokayne Cross (1884-1964), chartered surveyor, and Jeanie Boyd (1888-1944), of Hayling Island, Hampshire. Brother of Air Chief Marshal Sir Kenneth B.B. Cross, RAF.	04.04.1918 Cosham, Fareham, Hampshire - 31.03.1944 (executed) [age 25] [Poznan Old Garrison Cemetery, Poland, 7.C.2]	(A) P/O (prob) 21.12.1936 [39305] P/O 12.10.1937 F/O 12.05.1939 F/Lt. 03.09.1940 (T) Sq.Ldr. 01.12.1941 DFC 09.1940 for gallantry an devotion to duty in the execution of air operations MID 08.06.1944 posthumously	21.12.1936     commissioned RAF (General Duties Branch) [short service commission] 16.01.1937     No. 8 Flying Training School RAF (Montrose) 07.08.1937 - 07.1940 38 (Bomber) Squadron RAF (Marham) (DFC) 07.1940 - 08.08.1941 instructor, 11 Operational Training Unit RAF (Bassingbourne) 12.10.1940     tranferred to Reserve of Air Force Officers (and called up for air force service) 09.08.1941 - 12.02.1942 "B" Flight Commander, 103 Squadron RAF [His Wellington Z8714 PM-? was airborne 14:52 hrs from Elsham Wolds to hunt for and attack enemy battleships making the 'Channel Dash' (Operation Fuller). Presumed to have ditched. Captured.] 12.02.1942 - 31.03.1944 POW in German captivity in Oflag 21-B & Stalag Luft III [In March 1944 he was amongst the large group of officers who escaped from Sagan (L3). After being recaptured he was handed over to the Gestapo and murdered.]
Cross, [Sir] Kenneth Brian Boyd "Bing" Eldest son of Pembroke Henry Cokayne Cross (1884-1964), chartered surveyor, and Jeanie Boyd (1888-1944), of Hayling Island, Hampshire. Brother of Sq.Ldr. Ian K.P. Cross, RAF. Married (15.01.1945, St Luke's, Chelsea) Flight Officer Brenda Megan Powell, WAAF (28.09.1917 - 04.09.1991), eldest daughter of W/Cdr. F.J.B. Powell, MBE, RAF, of Colerne, Wiltshire; two sons, one daughter.	04.10.1911 The Rest, East Cosham, Fareham, Hampshire - 18.06.2003 Gorseway House, a retirement home in Hayling Island, Hampshire	P/O (prob) 11.04.1930 [29065] ... ... Sq.Ldr. 01.10.1938 (A) W/Cdr. 1940 (T) W/Cdr. 01.12.1940 (A) Gp.Capt. 07.1941 (T) Gp.Capt. 01.07.1943 (WS) Gp.Capt. 12.07.1943 (A) A/Cdre. 12.01.1943 ... ... Air Chief Marshal 01.10.1965 KCB 1959 (CB 1954); CBE 1945; DSO 1943; DFC 1940.	Education: Kingswood School, Bath. 11.04.1930     commissioned RAF (General Duties Branch) [short service commission] ... - ... ... 01.06.1936     permanent commission 08.12.1938     Auxiliary Liaison Officer, HQ 12 (Fighter) Group RAF 28.10.1939     Commanding Officer, 46 (Fighter) Squadron RAF (UK, Norway) 06.1940     convalescing 08.1940     Group Controller, HQ 12 Group RAF 12.1940     Commander, 252 Wing RAF (Middle East Air Force) 13.11.1941     supernumerary, HQ Western Desert Air Force 12.12.1941     Commander, 258 Wing RAF (Western Desert Air Force) 04.1942     Commander, 252 Wing RAF (Middle East Air Force) 01.1943     Air Officer Commanding, 212 Group RAF (Western Desert Air Force) 22.02.1943     Air Officer Commanding, 242 Group RAF (North West African Tactical Air Force / North West African Coastal Air Force) 03.1944     Air Commodore - Training, HQ Allied Expeditionary Air Force 12.06.1944     Director of Overseas Operations (Tactical), Air Ministry 1945     attended Imperial Defence College ... - ... ... Published: Straight and level (memoirs; 1993).
Cumming, William Neville "Bill" Son of Robert Cumming. Married (14.09.1920, Christ Church, Westminster) Phyllis Maude Martin, daughter of William Whistler Martin.	22.09.1899 Edinburgh, Scotland - (06?).1955 Paddington district, London	Sq.Ldr. RAFO 02.03.1938 [09196] OBE, DFC (For gallantry whilst flying during the operations. This officer set a splendid example to his squadron, and performed 72 hours war flying, including 41 bomb raids.)	With regret we announce the death, following an illness, of G/C. William Neville Cumming, O.B.E., D.F.C., A.F.R.Ae., F.R.Met.S. He was 55 years of age. Known to his friends as "Bill," though sometimes as "Neville," G/C. Cumming had devoted most of his working life to aviation, in which his career was both active and distinguished. Between 1917 and 1926 he served first in the R.N.A.S. and then in the R.A.F., in France and India. He next went to Canada for four years, where he did much pioneer civil flying. In 1931 he joined Imperial Airways, with whom he remained until 1938. During this period he was concerned with the introduction of flying-boat services, carrying out the first tests of the Short Caledonia from Southampton to Alexandria on March 4th, 1937. He also inaugurated the New York to Bermuda service on June 12th, 1937. It was in 1936 that he obtained his first-class navigator's ticket. Between 1939 and 1945 he again served with the R.A.F., first in Coastal Command and later as staff officer in charge of anti-U-boat defences in the Indian Ocean. Since the war he had been associated with several air transport companies and had been director of TSIorth-West Airlines (I.O.M.), G/C. Cumming. Ltd., and Southern Engineering Co., Ltd. In 1949, G/C. Cumming served for a year as Master of the Guild of Air Pilots and Air Navigators of the British Empire. This was the year in which the Queen, as Princess Elizabeth, was installed as Grand Master of the Guild. She in turn installed the Master. G/C. Cumming was also a past chairman of the British Air Charter Association, a past-president of F.I.T.A.P., a member of the Council of the Air League of the British Empire and a member of the Helicopter Association of Great Britain. Sympathy is extended to his widow, son and daughter.
Currant, Christopher Frederick "Bunny" Youngest son of Alderman Percy William Currant, JP, and Annie Tearle, of Luton and Harpenden. Married ((09?).1942, Christchurch district, Hampshire) Cynthia M.L. Brown, younger daughter of Mr & Mrs Leslie Brown, of Green Hollow, Poulner, Hampshire; three sons, one daughter.	14.12.1911 Luton, Bedfordshire - 12.03.2006 Taunton, Somerset	Sgt. ? [580097] P/O 01.04.1940 [43367] F/O (prob) ? F/O 01.04.1941 (WS) F/Lt. 23.06.1941 (WS) Sq.Ldr. 23.09.1942 Sq.Ldr. 01.09.1945 W/Cdr. 01.07.1947 (retd 11.01.1959) DSO 07.07.1942 * DFC 08.10.1940 ** DFC 15.11.1940 *** MID 14.01.1944 ? MID 01.01.1945 ? CdeG 09.04.1943 ? Olav 30.09.1960 Adviser at the Royal Norwegian Air Force Staff College * Squadron Leader Currant is a most courageous pilot and brilliant leader. His untiring efforts and outstanding ability have been reflected in the splendid work accomplished by the squadron which he commands. One day in March, 1942, he was wounded in the head during a sortie. Despite this, he flew his aircraft safely back to base. Following a short enforced rest, he returned with renewed vigour. Squadron Leader Currant has destroyed at least 14 and damaged many more enemy aircraft. ** This officer has led his flight with great skill and courage in air combats in the defence of London. He has destroyed seven enemy aircraft and damaged a number of others. His splendid example and fine fighting spirit have inspired the other pilots in his flight. *** Since September, 1940, this officer has personally destroyed six enemy aircraft and damaged several others, bringing his total to thirteen. He has lead his flight, and occasions his squadron, with great success, and shows a sound knowledge of tactics against the enemy.	46 Squadron RAF       151 Squadron RAF 01.04.1940     commissioned, RAF (General Duties Branch) [emergency commission] (05.1940) - (10.1940) 605 Squadron RAF (Wick, Caithness, then Hawkinge, Kent, then Drem, then Croydon) (DFC and Bar) ? - 08.1941 Chief Flying Instructor, 52 Operational Training Unit (Debden) 08.1941 - 06.1942 Commanding Officer, 501 Squadron RAF (DSO) 06.1942 - 08.1942 Wing Commander Flying, Ibsley 08.1942 - 12.1942 a four month lecturing tour in Eastern America 12.1942 - 02.1943 84 Group RAF Control Centre 02.1943 - 07.1944 Commander, 122nd Wing RAF (2nd TAF) (despatches twice)       victories: 10 destroyed, 5 shared destroyed, 2 probably destroyed, 12 damaged 01.09.1945     permanent commission, RAF (General Duties Branch)
Curwen, Richard Christopher Chaloner Only son of Lt. Chaloner Eldred Curwen, MC (1893-1935), and Katherine Diana Hannah Burford-Hancock (1894-1963) [remarried Malcolm, then D'Oyly], of Withcote Hall, Oakham, Rutland. Engaged (1946) Joanna Pearce, daughter of Lt. J.T. Pearce, India Command, and Mrs Olive Partridge, of Beckenham Cottage, Whissendine, Rutland.	08.01.1920 Upton on Severn district, Worcestershire - 10.04.1947 Barleythorpe, Oakham district, Rutland (motoring accident)	Army:   2nd Lt. 03.07.1939 [93179] Lt. 03.01.1941 WS/Capt. ? (reld 19.05.1946) RAF:   (T) P/O 11.10.1941 [47265] F/O 01.10.1942 (WS) F/Lt. 11.10.1943 (reld 19.06.1946) DFC 13.02.1945 ?	Education: Wellington College (1933.3-1938; Talbot House; Boxing VIII, Swimming VIII); Royal Military Academy, Woolwich (1938-1939). 03.07.1939     commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery 11.10.1941     employed, RAF (General Duties Branch) [temporary commission] (1945)     197 Squadron RAF (DFC)
Curwood, Benjamin Charles "Ben" Son (with one sister and one brother) of Benjamin Disraeli Curwood (1875-1952), and Florence Hannah Garland (1884-1964). Married (07.12.1940, St. Mary's Parish Church, Moseley, Birmingham, Warwickshire) Mary Elsie Baker (21.05.1919 - 11.02.1995), daughter (with two brothers) of Howard Baker (1890-1950), and Elsie Rose M. Read (1889-1980); one son, one daughter.	28.02.1914 Newbury, Berkshire - 02.11.1985 The Priory Hospital, Edgbaston, Birmingham district, Warwickshire	Army:   Lt. 08.07.1939 (reld 03.09.1939; on appointment to RAF) RAF:   F/O 04.09.1939 [23423] F/Lt. 04.09.1940 (T) Sq.Ldr. 01.07.1943 (Emgcy List) (reld 28.02.1959; retaining rank of W/Cdr.) OBE 24.09.1941 ?	MB, ChB Birm 1938; MRCS Eng , LRCP Lond 1939; DOMS Eng 1947.       late Officer Cadet, Birmingham University Contingent, Senior Division, Officer Training Corps 08.07.1939 - 03.09.1939 commissioned, Royal Army Medical Corps [emergency commission] 04.09.1939     commissioned, RAF (Medical Branch) [short service commission] 04.09.1944     transferred to reserve (and called up for air force service)
Cuthill, Charles Robert Son of Charles W. Cuthill, and Cissie A.A. French.	12.05.1923 Colchester, Essex - 20.09.2010	F/Sgt. ? [574146] P/O (prob) 30.09.1944 [56121] (WS) F/O 30.03.1945 F/O 01.11.1947, seniority 30.09.1945 F/Lt. 18.03.1949, seniority 30.03.1948 (retd 12.05.1961) DFC 22.05.1945 ? AFC 09.06.1949 ?	30.09.1944     commissioned, RAF (General Duties Branch) [emergency commission]       149 Squadron RAF (DFC) 18.03.1949     short service commission 01.11.1954     permanent commission