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  • 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...
  • Sergeant Gilbert MacKenzie

    Sergeant Gilbert MacKenzie

    Gilbert Mackenzie was born on 1 July 1916. His father, also Gilbert, was a soldier and had married Eva Woodhams in January 1915.
  • The Troubled Ace Who Failed to Find Peace

    The Troubled Ace Who Failed to Find Peace

    On the night of 18th/19th March, 1920, behind the locked door of his room in the Ashdown Park Hotel, Coulsdon, ...
  • Pilot Officer Frederick William Ratford

    Pilot Officer Frederick William Ratford

    Frederick William Ratford was born on 14 October 1916, in Essex, to Frederick George and Alice Maud Ratford (nee Glover). During January 1940, he had married Doreen K Lees in London.
  • 253 Squadron at RAF Northolt

    253 Squadron at RAF Northolt

  • Sergeant Francis Jack Pink

    Sergeant Francis Jack Pink

    On 31st March, 1954, Sergeant Francis Jack Pink died in unknown circumstances while serving at RAF Kenley.
  • Flight Lieutenant Harry Thomas James Anderson

    Flight Lieutenant Harry Thomas James Anderson

    Harry Thomas James Anderson had arrived in Britain as a young boy with his family in May 1920. He had been born on 19 September 1911 in Portage la Prairie, Manitoba; the son of Harry and Kate (nee Dales) Anderson.
  • Flight Sergeant André Paul François Vilboux

    Flight Sergeant André Paul François Vilboux

    André Paul François Vilboux was born in Rennes, Departement d’Ille-et-Vilaine in Brittany. When the Germans invaded France in May 1940, he was a student pilot in the French Air Force with No.23 Training School near Le Mans.
  • Flight Sergeant John Stewart Harries

    Flight Sergeant John Stewart Harries

    John Stewart Harries was the son of William and Florence Mabel (nee Dunford) Harries. He was probably born in Cardiff in 1919.
  • Colour Blind and in Bomb Disposal!

    Colour Blind and in Bomb Disposal!

    This is the story of Morris Barnett M.B.E., 1914- 1998. (ex-F/Lt O/C 6223 BD Squad), as told by his son ...
  • Sergeant Edward James Hindley

    Sergeant Edward James Hindley

    Edward James Hindley was the son of Harry and Dorothy M Hindley of Oldbury, Birmingham. His sacrifice is commemorated on Panel 85 of the Runnymede Memorial.
  • Sergeant John Edward Gallon

    Sergeant John Edward Gallon

    John Edward "Teddy" Gallon was born in Newcastle-on-Tyne on 8th August, 1920, the eldest child of Edward Gallon, a painter and decorator, and Alice Gallon (nee Gaffney).
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