Royal Air Force (Volunteer Reserve) Officers 1939-1945 -- F

Royal Air Force (Volunteer Reserve) (RAF(VR)) Officers
1939-1945

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Fahie,
William Cusack
W.C. Fahie
Married (02.06.1945, London) Sen.Cmdr. Pauline Mary de Peauly Gower (22.07.1910-02.03.1947); twin sons.
27.04.1919
Dublin, Ireland
-
06/07.1971
Johannesburg, South Africa

P/O (prob)
29.09.1939 [75521]

P/O
29.09.1940

(WS) F/O
11.03.1940

(T) F/Lt.
01.12.1941

(WS) F/Lt.
30.11.1942

(A) Sq.Ldr.
?

(T) Sq.Ldr.
01.01.1945

(A) W/Cdr.
?

MID
01.01.1943
?

MID
17.09.1943
?

MID
08.06.1944
?

BSM
13.09.1949
?

29.09.1939

first commission, RAFVR (Administrative and Special Duties Branch)

24.04.1940

transferred, Technical Branch

Farquharson,
James Miller
J.M. Farquharson
Married; four sons, one daughter.
10.06.1922
Kingston, Jamaica
-
25.06.2003
Trinidad and Tobago

Ldg.Acm.
? [1388674]

P/O (prob)
07.01.1943 [133249]

(WS) F/O
07.07.1943

(WS) F/Lt.
07.01.1945 (reld 27.03.1947)

DFC
15.05.1945
* [this and other medals donated to the Military and Aviation Museum in Trinidad and Tobago]

* This officer has completed a large number of sorties over various battle areas in Burma. He has displayed the greatest keenness to engage the enemy and has been responsible for the. destruction of mudh enemy equipment. On one occasion he took part in an attack on a force of Japanese tanks, 13 of which were destroyed. In this spirited action, Flight Lieutenant Farquharson pressed home his attacks with
exceptional determination.

07.01.1943

first commission, RAFVR (General Duties Branch)

(1945?)

Hurricane pilot, 20 Squadron RAF (Burma)

Feilding,
the Hon. Hugh Richard
H.R. Feilding
Son of Rudolph Edmund Aloysius Feilding, Viscount Feilding (1885-1937) and Agnes Imelda Mary Harding (1885-1937).
Brother of Lt. the Hon. David Charles Feilding, Maj. the Earl of Denbigh, Capt. the Hon. Basil Egerton Feilding & Capt. the Hon. Henry Anthony Feilding, MC.
Married (28.03.1944) Sheila Katharine Bolton (died 10.04.2001), daughter of Brig. Charles Arthur Bolton; one son.
15.07.1920
-
03.04.1996
Yorkshire

Sgt.
? [1162486]

P/O (prob)
05.03.1941 [64882]

P/O
05.03.1942

(WS) F/O
05.03.1942

(WS) F/Lt.
05.03.1943

(A) Sq.Ldr.
(1945?)

MID
14.06.1945
?

Education: Ampleforth College

05.03.1941

first commission, RAFVR (General Duties Branch) [emergency commission]

Fellow, Institute of Chartered Accountants (FCA).

Figgins,
David Peter
D.P. Figgins
Son of James Forrester Figgins, Lieutenant of the Coast Guard, located in Ireland.
Brother of R.Adm. James Figgins, RN.
Married; two sons.
06.1889
Drogheda, Co Louth
-
11.1979

Army:

2nd Lt.
12.10.1915

Lt.
1916 ? (reld 30.09.1921)

A/Capt.
17.11.1917-10.05.1919

Hon. Capt.
30.09.1921

RAFVR:

(A) P/O (prob)
28.03.1941

P/O
1942? (reld 04.07.1944)

MBE
01.01.1955
New Year 55

12.10.1915

commissioned, The London Regiment

survived gassing at the Battle of Paschendale

01.02.1918
-
10.05.1919
Company Commander, 18th Battalion The London Regiment

Principal school teacher, Belfast.

28.03.1941

first commission, RAFVR (Training Branch)

28.03.1941
-
04.07.1944
training instructor

Principal, Antrim Road Primary School, Belfast.

Finucane,
Arthur John
A.J. Finucane (Photo courtesy of Mr Martin Finucane)
Son of Henry Thomas Finucane and Dorothy Davies, of Fulham, London.

medal bar at RAF Museum
1913
Fulham, London
-

Sgt.
? [1264072]

P/O (prob)
02.01.1942 [118188]

(WS) F/O
?

(WS) F/Lt.
02.01.1944

F/O
11.10.1948, seniority 24.07.1946

F/Lt.
19.06.1952 (retd 12.09.1964; own request)

DFC
11.02.1944
?

39|45St
?
?

AtlSt
?
?

Def Med
?
?

BWM
?
?

GenSM
?
with clasp "Cyprus"

02.01.1942

first commission, RAFVR (General Duties Branch) [emergency commission]

(1942?)
-
(1944)
flew Sunderlands with 228 Squadron RAF

11.10.1948
-
31.07.1952
short service commission RAF, and transferred to the Secretarial Branch

01.08.1952
-
12.09.1964
permanent commission

Fisher,
Douglas *
D. Fisher
* uncertain at the moment whether this is his full name or not; even uncertain whether he was RAFVR or RAF
1921 ?
-
18.02.2007
[aged 86]

F/Lt.
?

?

first commission, RAFVR (General Duties Branch)

29 Squadron RAF

Captain of Caledonian Airways.

Flack,
Leslie John
L.J. Flack
?
-
1983

Sgt.
? [740145]

P/O (prob)
29.08.1940, seniority 15.08.1940 [84705]

P/O
29.08.1941, seniority 15.08.1941

(WS) F/O
29.08.1941, seniority 15.08.1941

(A) F/Lt.
?

(WS) F/Lt.
29.08.1942, seniority 15.08.1942

(T) Sq.Ldr.
?

AFC
11.06.1942
?

29.08.1940

first commission, RAFVR (General Duties Branch)

?
-
09.07.1957
on the Emergency List (relinquished commission, retaining the rank of Sq.Ldr.)

Foskett,
Leslie Bernard
R.J.A. Ford 17.08.1921
-

Ldg.Acm.
? [1152499]

P/O (prob)
01.01.1943 [150047]

(WS) F/O (prob)
01.07.1943

(WS) F/Lt.
01.01.1945

F/O
23.01.1946

F/Lt.
01.07.1946

(A) Sq.Ldr.
(1952)

Sq.Ldr.
01.07.1952

W/Cdr.
01.01.1958

Gp.Capt.
01.01.1965 (retd 17.08.1976)

OBE
13.06.1964
HM's birthday 64

AFC
05.06.1952
?

01.01.1943

first commission, RAFVR (General Duties Branch)

23.01.1946

extended service, RAF

15.04.1947

permanent commission, RAF (dated 01.07.1946)

Francis,
Robin Keith
R.K. Francis (Photo courtesy of Mr Ian Scarr) 29.01.1918
Cordoba, La Playosa,
Argentine
-
27.06.1943
(MIA) [age 25]
[Malta Memorial,
panel 7, column 1]

Wt.Offr.
? [964971]

P/O (prob)
01.01.1943 [141729]

DFC
20.06.1944
with effect from 26.06.1943 [posthumously]

Electrician. Served in the Argentine Navy as a 1st Class Electrician, 01.07.1936-01.07.1939.

26.04.1940
-
31.12.1942
volunteered RAFVR (being a British subject, born in Argentine), serving in the ranks before being commissioned; recommended for training as a pilot; awarded his Flying Badge 05.12.1940

01.01.1943

first commission, RAFVR (General Duties Branch) [emergency commission]

?
-
27.06.1943
14 Squadron RAF
[his aircraft Marauder Mk. IA FK363 (G) went missing from a reconnaissance mission]

Fry,
Charles Rawdon Keith
C.R.K. Fry
Son of Charles Rawdon Manders Fry and of Florence Magdalen Fry (née Scudamore), of Seaford, Sussex.
1922 ?
-
04.10.1941
[age 19]
[Horley (St Bartholomew) New Churchyard, Surrey, A.O.3]

Ldg.Acm.
? [1269153]

P/O (prob)
09.07.1941 [101570]

Education: Hailebury College, Hertford

09.07.1941

commissioned, RAFVR (General Duties Branch) [emergency commission]

?
-
04.10.1941
610 Squadron RAF

Fry,
Patrick John
"Pat"
P.J. Fry 19.12.1922
-
14.10.2007
Hove, Sussex

Wt.Off.
? [1386077]

P/O (prob)
26.11.1944 [189130]

(WS) F/O
26.05.1945

F/O
30.05.1946, seniority 26.11.1945

F/Lt.
26.05.1948

Sq.Ldr.
01.07.1955 (retd 01.02.1961)

DFC
06.03.1945
*

CdeG
?
**

* Pilot Officer Fry is a keen and competent pilot. He has completed very many operational missions, including numerous attacks on enemy shipping. On a recent occasion he took part in an attack against shipping in the harbour at Den Helder. Opposition was intense. Nevertheless, Pilot Officer Fry pressed home his attack with great courage and determination, setting a very fine example.
** For sinking two German boats on a Bordeaux river, after surprising them by swinging round and flying in over land.

26.11.1944

commissioned, RAFVR (General Duties Branch)

(1945)

236 Squadron RAF

30.05.1946

extension of service for 7 years, RAF (General Duties Branch)

01.10.1950

permanent commission, RAF (General Duties Branch)

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