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  • Flying Officer Frederic Laing Collison

    Flying Officer Frederic Laing Collison

    On 22nd November, 1926, No.24 squadron tragically lost two of its officers in a flying accident at 1.30pm, when their De Havilland DH9A, serial number 7310, stalled on take-off from Kenley.
  • Flight Lieutenant Felix St. John Woollard

    Flight Lieutenant Felix St. John Woollard

    On 22nd November, 1926, No.24 squadron tragically lost two of its officers in a flying accident at 1.30pm, when their DH9A, serial number 7310, stalled on take-off from Kenley.
  • Sergeant Leonard John Patterson

    Sergeant Leonard John Patterson

    Leonard John Patterson was the son of John and Nina Patterson of Freeland, Oxfordshire. He was shot down by Me.109's east of Hastings on 28th November, 1940.
  • Sergeant Mieczyslaw Stanislaw Marcinkowski

    Sergeant Mieczyslaw Stanislaw Marcinkowski

    Mieczyslaw Stanislaw Marcinkowski was born on 24th February 1919 in Rytwiany in the Staszow district of Poland.
  • Sergeant Harry Cyril Grove

    Sergeant Harry Cyril Grove

    Harry Cyril Grove was the son of Albert George and Alice Maud Grove, of Herne Hill, London.
  • Pilot Officer Noel Arthur Ireland

    Pilot Officer Noel Arthur Ireland

    On 30th September 1931, the tricky Bristol Bulldog claimed a life when No.23 squadron's Pilot Officer Noel Arthur Ireland failed to recover from a spin while practicing aerobatics.
  • Questions in Parliament - June 1917

    Questions in Parliament - June 1917

    On 5th June 1917, Sir F. Banbury, M.P. asked the Under Secretary for War, Mr. Macpherson, in Parliament, whether he was aware that the Royal Flying Corps had taken possession of 81 acres of Kenley Common and were felling trees on land that the City of London was under statutory obligation to maintain for the use of the public.
  • Coulsdon's Forgotten Tragedy

    Coulsdon's Forgotten Tragedy

    On the night of 2/3rd June in 1944, a terrible tragedy befell a Coulsdon family..
  • The Formation of No.615 (County of Surrey) Squadron

    The Formation of No.615 (County of Surrey) Squadron

    Of the many squadrons which served at RAF Kenley, No.615 County of Surrey, "Churchill's own," is probably the one most closely associated with the airfield.
  • Sergeant Walter Alfred Hayes

    Sergeant Walter Alfred Hayes

    Walter Alfred Hayes was born in Armstrong, British Columbia, the son of Newman Alfred and Alice Amelia Hayes. He worked as a farm hand before enlisting in May 1941.
  • Flying Officer Victor Oliver Reynolds

    Flying Officer Victor Oliver Reynolds

    VICTOR OLIVER REYNOLDS was born in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire in 1892. His Father Acton Reynolds was a journeyman butcher. By 1901, the Reynolds family were living at 22 Castle St, Reading. Victor had two sisters, Cordelia and Dora, and one brother Charles.
  • Aircraftman Second Class Percy Braithwaite

    Aircraftman Second Class Percy Braithwaite

    PERCY BRAITHWAITE was born in Scalthwaiterigg, Westmoreland, in 1901. He was the son of George William Braithwaite his wife Ethel Braithwaite (nee Tanner), and had a younger brother named Roger.
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