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

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Palmer,
John Newman
"Jack"
10.06.1903
Saffron Walden, Essex
-
c. 1968
(died from cancer)

P/O (prob)
29.11.1940 [88563]

P/O
29.11.1941

(WS) F/O
29.11.1941

(T) F/Lt.
01.01.1943

(WS) F/Lt.
10.10.1944 (reld 25.11.1945) (reld from Emergency List 10.02.1954; retaining rank of Sq.Ldr.)

(A) Sq.Ldr.
?

MID
01.01.1945
for sorting out a Crisis with the local Sultan at Aden

29.11.1940

first commission, RAFVR (Administrative and Special Duties Branch) [emergency commission]

(1944)

Base Commander at Socotra, Aden

(1944/45?)

invalided out (found to be allergic to penicillin and became bed-ridden for a few years)

Director of Durrants in East Street, Chichester, Sussex. He was a Chichester Town Councilor and also The England Team Manager of the Amateur Boxing Association in the mid-1950's.

Patton-Bethune,
Michael Lisle

Son of Maj. Charlie Lionel Patton-Bethune (1882-1957), and Mary Lester.
1919 ?
-
16.05.1940
[age 21]
[Golders Green Crematorium, panel 3]

Sgt.
? [754290]

P/O
26.09.1939 [74340]

26.09.1939

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

?
-
16.05.1940
killed in plane crash near Moretonhampstead

Pearse,
Richard John Bennett
"Jack"

08.09.1909
Launceston, Cornwall, Devon
-
10.1998
Exeter, Devon

P/O
08.04.1940 [78521]

...
...

W/Cdr.
?

OBE, AFC

08.04.1940

first commission, RAFVR (General Duties Branch)

Pearson,
George Sholto Manning

Son of ... Pearson, and ... Wecke.
04.07.1920
Kensington, Greater London
-
11.08.1943
(KIA) [age 23]
[Aarsele Communal Cemetery, Belgium, NW Corner]

Flt.Sgt.
? [952127]

P/O (prob)
16.07.1942 [127030]

(WS) F/O (prob)
16.01.1943

16.07.1942

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

05.1943
-
11.08.1943
pilot, 197 Squadron RAF
[on a 'Rhubarb' mission [freelance fighter sortie against ground targets of opportunity] in a Typhoon Ib [JP533 'V'], shot down by Flak in the Gent area]

Pease,
Arthur Peter

Son of Sir Richard Arthur Pease, JP, DL, MA, 2nd Bart., and of Lady Jeannette Thorn Pease (nee Kissel), of Richmond. 1918 ?
-
15.09.1940
(KIA) [age 22]
[Middleton Tyas (St. Michael) Churchyard]

P/O 06.09.1938 [72447]

F/O 30.03.1940

Education: Eton and Cambridge Universities [Cambridge University Air Squadron]

09.1938? - ? No 1 School of Army Co-operation (Old Sarum)

? - 07.1940 5 Officer Training Unit (OTU) (Aston Down)

06.07.1940 - 15.09.1940 603 Squadron (Dyce, Aberdeen, since 10.08.1940 Hornchurch):

30.07.1940 half share (He 111)

03.09.1940 full victory (Bf 109)

07.09.1940 aircraft damaged; forced landing at Hornchurch

15.09.1940 killed in action at 15:05 hrs as his Spitfire I (X4324) was shot down on a patrol by Bf 109s over Kingswood, Kent, and crashed near Maidstone

Powell,
John Leonard

Son of David Albert and Elizabeth Powell, of Rhos, Glamorgan.
1916 ?
-
16.04.1945
[age 29]
[Poznan Old Garrison Cemetery, Poland, collective grave 5.B.1-5]

Ldg.Acm.
? [1375518]

P/O (prob)
06.08.1941 [103039]

P/O
06.08.1942

(WS) F/O
06.08.1942

(WS) F/Lt.
06.08.1943

(A) Sq.Ldr.
?

DFC
29.03.1946,
w.e.f.
15.04.1945
? [posthumously]

MID
08.06.1944
?

06.08.1941

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

?
-
16.04.1945
pilot, 617 ('Dambusters') Squadron RAF
[lost in his Lancaster NG228 on an operation against Swinemünde]

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