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Carl Raymond Davis was born in South Africa of American parents and was sent to Sherborne College in Britain at the age of 13. He later studied at Trinity College, Cambridge and McGill University, Mont...
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Ian Kenneth Sefton Joll was born on 3rd February 1920 at East Grinstead and was educated at Hurstpierpoint College. He joined 604 Squadron, Auxiliary Air Force in March 1939 and was called to full-ti...
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Updated from MyHeritage Family Trees via father John George (george) Scaramanga by SmartCopy : Oct 27 2014, 8:31:47 UTC
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Reference: TNG Genealogy - SmartCopy : Sep 4 2017, 14:04:33 UTC
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Air Vice-Marshal Meredith Thomas CSI, CBE, DFC, AFC, (6 July 1892 – 20 May 1984) was a senior commander in the Royal Air Force during World War II. He began his career as a flying ace during World War ...
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PERRIN, DESMOND PALMER
Rank: Flight Lieutenant
Trade: Pilot
Service No: 404404
Date of Death: 10/09/1944
Age: 25
Regiment/Service: Royal New Zealand Air Force 198 (R.A.F.) Sqdn.
Awards:...
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Sir Thomas Walter White, KBE, DFC (26 April 1888 – 13 October 1957) was an Australian politician and First World War pilot. He was one of the first airmen trained for the Australian Flying Corps in 191...
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Rank: Flight Lieutenant
Service No: 40441
Date of Death: 04/08/1941
Age: 22
Regiment/Service: Royal Air Force 257 Sqdn.
Awards: D F C, Mentioned in Despatches
Panel Reference: Panel 29.
M...
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Flying Officer F. C. Carswell, DFC; born Invercargill, 4 Jul 1916; assistant company secretary; joined RNZAF Dec 1940.
Pilot Officer . Francis Campbell CARSWELL (N.Z.404457), Royal New Zealand Air Fo...
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WAR
World War II, 1939-1945
CAMPAIGNS
France and Germany (TBC)
1940 Battle of Britain
MEDALS AND AWARDS
Distinguished Flying Cross and bar (DFC*)
DFC. 17.10.1941. DFC Bar. 26.1....
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LOTFWW
Medal Index Cards findmypast Transcription
First name(s) L A
Last name Strange
Year 1914-20
Service number -
Rank Second Lieutenant
Regiment Dorsetshire Regiment/Royal Flying Cor...
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Kilde: Find a Grave:
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Birth: Feb. 24, 1924 Regina Saskatchewan, Canada Death: Sep. 4, 2008 Kelowna British Columbia, Canada
Canadian Politician. He served as Member of Parliament for Yukon for 2...
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Lt. Col Paul Bruce Montague USMC (Ret.) died from complications of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (Lou Gehrig's Disease), Thursday, February 9, 2006 in a San Antonio Hospital. He was born at the Montagu...
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James Brindley Nicolson
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Eric James Brindley Nicolson
Born 29 April 1917
Hampstead, London
Died 2 May 1945 (aged 28)
Bay of Bengal
Allegiance Unite...
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Find A Grave Memorial He enlisted after Pearl Harbor, training as a U.S. Navy pilot. Some claim that George H. Bush was the youngest officer in the Pacific during the war, but actually, Bob was. He fle...
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Flight Lieutenant Edmund Roger Tempest MC, DFC (30 October 1894 – 17 December 1921) was a British First World War flying ace credited with 17 aerial victories
Edmund Tempest was born at the family es...
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Raymond E. Lavoie Jr., 86, of Sarasota, Florida, passed away peacefully on April 12, 2007, surrounded by his loving family. He was born in Nashua, New Hampshire, on August 15, 1920. Raymond was a gradu...
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Birth registration, Wandsworth, London: "England and Wales Birth Registration Index, 1837-2008," database, FamilySearch ( : accessed 9 March 2016), Leonard De Ville Chisman, 1899; from "England & Wales...
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- Sherborne School, UK, Book of Remembrance for former pupils who died in the Second World War, 1939-1945.
- Private Papers of Group Captain J R Jeudwine DSO OBE DFC at Imperial War Museum;
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In 1940, Walter purchased an airplane and learned how to fly. He enlisted in the RAF and fought in the Battle of Britain. In the first ten days of the North Africa Campaign, he flew forty missions befo...
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DFC stands for Distinguished Flying Cross, A British military decoration awarded to officers of the Royal Air Force for extraordinary achievement. Particular bravery and skill under fire in August 1944...
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Source: Wikipedia.
James FitzMaurice was an aviation pioneer. He is listed by Wikipedia as a famous resident of Glasnevin Cemetery, but neither Find A Grave nor another Wikipedia article confirm th...
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Rank: Flight Lieutenant
Service No: 40885
Date of Death: 13/04/1941
Age: 24
Regiment/Service: Royal Air Force 211 Sqdn.
Awards: D F C
Panel Reference: Column 240.
Memorial: ALAMEIN MEMORI...
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Marshal of the Royal Air Force Samuel Charles Elworthy, Baron Elworthy KG, GCB, CBE, DSO, LVO, DFC, AFC (23 March 1911 – 4 April 1993) was a senior officer in the Royal Air Force. He served as commande...
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Royal New Zealand Air Force 27 July 1941 - 10 October 1945
Flew at least 308 sorties
MEDALS AND AWARDS
Distinguished Flying Cross (DFC)
8 August 1944, 486 Squadron, RNZAF (Tempest)
Grandf...
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Michael James Herrick was one of five brothers to serve during the Second World War. He flew with distinction during the Battle of Britain and in the Pacific before being killed on air operations over ...
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Leonard Trent was born April 14th, 1915 in Nelson. Between 1928 and 1934 he was educated at Nelson College. Following basic training at Taieri, Trent took flight training in Christchurch, receiving his...
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Lancaster DS681 – No. 426 Squadron RCAF (Thunderbird) – Airborne 21:32 on 17 Aug 1943 from Linton-on-Ouse to bomb the V-2 rocket research and testing facility in Peenemünde. Crashed 00:50 on 18 Aug 194...
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Lancaster ND523 - No. 7 Squadron RAF - Airborne 19:02 on 22 Mar 1944 from Oakington to bomb a target in Frankfurt. Intercepted at 17,600 feet by a night-fighter while approaching target and set on fire...
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27/08/1942 90241 Group Captain Walter Myers Churchill DSO, DFC, Royal Air Force (Auxiliary Air Force), 605 Sqdn, Pilot (Spitfire EP339), SYRACUSE WAR CEMETERY, SICILY, V. D. 3., son of William Algern...
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Lancaster ND390 – No. 97 Squadron RAF (Straits Settlements) - Airborne 22:15 on 30 Mar 1944 from Bourn to bomb a target in Nürnberg. While flying slightly E of the prescribed track, attacked by a Me110...
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Died during the preparation for the Allied invasion of Italy.
From the Commonwealth War Graves Commission web site:
Name: SAVILLE, ERIC COWLEY Initials: E C Nationality: South African Rank: Major (...
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Stirling LK332:
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VERDON-ROE, Lighton, DFC, 119179, Squadron Leader, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, 156 Sqdn, Lancaster ED857, Pilot, REICHSWALD FOREST WAR CEMETERY, 5. B. 11., son of Sir Alliott Verdon-Roe, Kt., OB...
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William Henry "Willie" Rhodes-Moorhouse, DFC (4 March 1914 – 6 September 1940) was a Royal Air Force fighter pilot and flying ace who was killed in action during the Battle of Britain.
Rhodes-Moorhou...
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GRIMSTON, The Hon. Brian, DFC, 84667, Squadron Leader, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, 156 Sqdn, Lancaster ED615 , Pilot, Runnymede Panel 118, son of James Walter Grimston, 4th Earl of Verulam, and ...
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Jonathan Sinclair Youngleson, eldest son of Dawn Vera Griffiths Youngleson, daughter of Stella Jenkins Griffiths Rae Barrow, is the current custodian of Tommy Rae's Distinguished Flying Cross.
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Marshal of the Royal Air Force William Sholto Douglas, 1st Baron Douglas of Kirtleside, GCB, MC, DFC (23 December 1893 – 29 October 1969) was a senior figure in the Royal Air Force up to and during W...
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The Honourable David Arthur Coke DFC, (/ˈkʊk/ kuuk; 1915–1941) was a Flight Lieutenant in the Royal Air Force Reserve during the Second World War, and is considered a flying ace, being credited with 2 ...
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Sir William Samuel Stephenson, KBE, CC, MC, DFC (23 January 1897 – 31 January 1989) was a Canadian soldier, airman, businessman, inventor, spymaster, and the senior representative of British intellig...
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14/09/1943 125300 Flying Officer Ian Maclean DFC, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, 138 Sqdn, Bomb Aimer, ESBJERG (FOURFELT) CEMETERY, A. 8. 1., son of The Rt. Hon. Sir Donald Macl...
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23/06/1944 103589 Flight Lieutenant The Hon. Michael Julius W. Benn DFC, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, 21 Sqdn, GOLDERS GREEN CREMATORIUM, Panel 1, son of Air Commodore The Rt. Hon. William Wedgwo...
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John Kenneth Haviland DFC (19 January 1921 – 1 July 2002) was an American pilot who flew for the Royal Air Force during the Battle of Britain. He was one of 11 American pilots who flew with RAF Fight...
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Rank: Air Commodore
Date of Death: 03/07/1943
Age: 50
Regiment/Service: Royal Air Force
Awards: D S O, D F C and 2 Bars
Grave Reference: Eur. War Graves Plot. Grave 104.
Cemetery: HARARE (P...
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Wikipedia contributors. " Frank Willan ." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia.
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Grand Prix racing car driver and fighter pilot with 4+ kills in the Battle of Britain (WWII). Air Commodore Whitney Willard Straight CBE, MC, DFC (6 November 1912 – 5 April 1979) was a Grand Prix mot...
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Petrus Hugo DSO DFC and 2 bars ,[4] was a South African flying ace of the Second World War.
Petrus Hendrik Hugo was born 20 December 1917 at Pampoenpoort, Cape Province. He attended the Witwatersrand...
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Blenheim T2165 – Airborne 10:32 on 26 Aug 1941 from Bodney. Believed shot down by Lt Dähne, 2./JG 52 in the vicinity of Heligoland. All three bodies were eventually washed onto German shores and are bu...
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Albert Gerald Lewis
DFC and bar
Nickname Zulu
Born 18 April 1918
Kimberley, South Africa
Died 14 December 1982 (aged 64)
Allegiance South Africa
Service/branch Royal Air Force
Years of...
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" Adolph Gysbert Malan DSO & Bar DFC (24 March 1910 – 17 September 1963), better known as Sailor Malan , was a famed South African World War II RAF fighter pilot who led No. 74 Squadron RAF during the ...
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Group Captain Geoffrey Leonard Cheshire, Baron Cheshire, VC, OM, DSO and Two Bars, DFC (7 September 1917 – 31 July 1992) was a highly decorated British RAF pilot during the Second World War.
Amon...
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Born 2 May 1912 in Esher Surrey, UK (Registration in District of Kingston, Surrey, UK) and christened Gordon B.F. Cousens (Bryce).
Twin of Henry A.C. Cousens - older brothers of Alan (by one year)
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Group Captain Percy Charles "Pick" Pickard DSO** DFC (16 May 1915–18 February 1944) was a British bomber pilot and commander during World War II. He is best remembered by the public for his...
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W/Cdr. Peter James Channer
Son of Luther James Channer.
Married Derita Marion Cunynghame, daughter of Major Stuart Cunynghame and Helen Dorothy Taylor, on 6 February 1942.
He gained the ran...
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Peter Wooldridge Townsend
Group Captain Peter Wooldridge Townsend, CVO, DSO, DFC & Bar (22 November 1914 – 19 June 1995) was a Royal Air Force officer, flying ace, courtier and author. He was Equer...
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