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17 Squadron

  • Flight Lieutenant Capel Francis Goodson Adye

    Flight Lieutenant Capel Francis Goodson Adye

    Capel Francis Goodson Adye first joined the RAF, as a probationary Pilot Officer, on a Short Service Commission on 11 October 1929...
  • Flight Lieutenant Richard Vincent Meredith

    Flight Lieutenant Richard Vincent Meredith

    The son of Percy Hamilton Meredith and Margaret Hilda Meredith, Richard Meredith was born in Runcorn in October 1914. He married Marjorie Honey in Liverpool during January 1938.
  • Flight Sergeant William Thomas Jones

    Flight Sergeant William Thomas Jones

    William Thomas Jones was the son of Thomas and Agnes Jones of Rhosymedre, Denbighshire and husband to Doris Gwendolyn Jones of Leytonstone.
  • Pilot Officer Keith Victor Keen

    Pilot Officer Keith Victor Keen

    On 23rd November, 1937, Pilot Officers Keith Victor Keen and Montague Percival Richards, of 17 squadron were killed when their Gloster Gauntlets (K5344 and K5348) collided at 6.45pm near Old Coulsdon. They were carrying out a night railway signals detection duty.
  • Pilot Officer Montague Percival Richards

    Pilot Officer Montague Percival Richards

    On 23rd November, 1937, Pilot Officers Keith Victor Keen and Montague Percival Richards, of 17 squadron were killed when their Gloster Gauntlets (K5344 and K5348) collided at 6.45pm near Old Coulsdon. They were carrying out a night railway signals detection duty.
  • Pilot Officer Richard Clare Whittaker DFC

    Pilot Officer Richard Clare Whittaker DFC

    Richard Clare Whittaker was a Suffolk lad, born on 26 November 1919 in Yoxford. After attending Framlingham College, between 1931 and 1937, he joined the RAF on a Short Service Commission in January 1938.
  • Sergeant Samson Herbert Holman

    Sergeant Samson Herbert Holman

    Although Samson Holman joined the RAF Volunteer Reserve in January 1937, he was very much still a trainee pilot with No.17 Squadron in March 1940.
  • Squadron Leader Geoffrey Donald Emms

    Squadron Leader Geoffrey Donald Emms

    Geoffrey Donald Emms was the eldest son of Henry Donald Hastings Emms and Kate Mary, nee Dann, Emms. His younger brother, Roy, was born in 1911.
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