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  • 2nd Lieutenant William Millar Gourlay

    2nd Lieutenant William Millar Gourlay

    At 11.40am, on 1st October, 1918, Second Lieutenant William Millar Gourlay, of 91st Squadron, Kenley, was killed when his Sopwith 5F.1 Dolphin stalled and crashed while turning near the ground.
  • Pilot Officer Alfred Roberts Tidman

    Pilot Officer Alfred Roberts Tidman

    ALFRED ROBERTS TIDMAN was born in Grimsby, Lincolnshire, in 1918, the son of Arthur Roberts Tidman and Christian Laing Tidman.
  • Wing Commander Raymond Arthur Holmwood

    Wing Commander Raymond Arthur Holmwood

    Raymond Arthur Holmwood was the first Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) officer to assume command of an RAF squadron during World War II.
  • Flight Lieutenant Thomas Glyn Finlayson Ritchie

    Flight Lieutenant Thomas Glyn Finlayson Ritchie

    Thomas Glyn Finlayson Ritchie was born on 30th November, 1913, in Milngavie, Dunbartonshire. He was the son of Thomas McGown Ritchie and Jane Finlayson. 
  • Flying Officer Marcel Gustave Louis Trapagna-Leroy

    Flying Officer Marcel Gustave Louis Trapagna-Leroy

    Leroy served with distinction during the Great War and was awarded the Air Force Cross in 1919. Air Chief Marshal Sir James Robb remembered Trapagna Leroy as a "remarkable character."
  • Flying Officer Edward William Logsdail

    Flying Officer Edward William Logsdail

    On 7th July, 1923, Tragedy struck No.24 Squadron, when two of their pilots were killed in an Airco DH.9a (H3431) shortly after take-off from Kenley.
  • Sergeant (Pilot) Wilfred Gibson

    Sergeant (Pilot) Wilfred Gibson

    Wilfred was born circa 1898. His parents were Robert and Jane Gibson, of Easington Lane, Hetton-Le-Hole and he had one sister, Margaret. 
  • Private 2nd Class Albert Ernest Hobson

    Private 2nd Class Albert Ernest Hobson

    Husband of E. Hobson, of 101, Pitsmoor Rd., Pitsmoor, Sheffield.
  • Flight Sergeant William Charles Hollier

    Flight Sergeant William Charles Hollier

    In February, 1915, William enlisted in the Royal Flying Corps, mustering as an Aero Rigger. Six months later, he married Ruth Margaret Rogers, in Gravesend - the couple had four children, two girls and two boys, between 1915 and 1921.
  • Sergeant (Pilot) Alexander James Proctor Walton

    Sergeant (Pilot) Alexander James Proctor Walton

    On 5th July 1942, No.611 squadron, stationed at Kenley, lost Sergeant Pilot Alexander James Proctor Walton and Warrant Officer Victor Cecil Mayo Wheeler, when Miles Magister Mk.I (L8130), stalled during low level aerobatics and crashed at Woldingham.
  • Warrant Officer Victor Cecil Mayo Wheeler

    Warrant Officer Victor Cecil Mayo Wheeler

    On 5th July 1942, No.611 squadron lost Warrant Officer Wheeler, who was flying as a passenger in a Miles Magister when it stalled during low level aerobatics and crashed at Woldingham.
  • Flight Lieutenant Harold Charles Calvey

    Flight Lieutenant Harold Charles Calvey

    On 1st July 1928, the R.A.F. lost one of it's finest aerobatic pilots in a freak accident when Avro 504N (H2534) of the RAF Practice Camp at Sutton Bridge, dived into the ground not far from RAF Henlow, killing Flight Lieutenant Harold Charles Calvey of No.23 Squadron, Kenley and Flight Sergeant William Charles Hollier, a carpenter/rigger. 
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