Bader,
[Sir] Douglas
Robert Steuart


Son
of Frederick Roberts Bader and Jessie ScottMackenzie; married 1st, 1933,
Olive Thelma Exley
Edwards (died 1971); no children; 2nd, 1973, Mrs Joan Eileen Murray.
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21.02.1910
Marylebone, London
-
05.09.1982
London
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F/O
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06.06.1932 [26151]
(retd 30.04.1933)
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(A?) F/Lt.
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04.1940
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(WS) F/Lt.
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24.09.1940
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(A) Sq.Ldr.
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06.1940
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(A) W/Cdr.
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03.1941
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(T) W/Cdr.
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01.07.1945
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(WS) W/Cdr.
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01.12.1945
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(A?) Gp.Capt.
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06.1945 (retd
21.07.1946)
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Kt
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12.06.1976
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HM's
birthday; for services to disabled people
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CBE
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02.01.1956
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New
Year 56; for services to the disabled
|
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DSO
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01.10.1940
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*
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DSO
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15.07.1941
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**
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DFC
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07.01.1941
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***
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DFC
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09.09.1941
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****
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MID
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01.01.1941
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?
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MID
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17.03.1941
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?
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MID
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31.01.1947
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?
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LegH
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?
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?
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CdeG
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?
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?
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* This officer has displayed gallantry and
leadership of the highest order. During three recent engagements he has led
his squadron with such skill and ability that thirty-three enemy aircraft have
been destroyed. In the course of these engagements Squadron Leader Bader has
added to his previous successes by destroying six enemy aircraft.
** This officer has led his wing on a series of
consistently successful sorties over enemy territory during the past three
months. His high qualities of leadership and courage have been an inspiration
to all. Wing Commander Bader has destroyed 15 hostile aircraft.
*** Squadron Leader Bader has continued to lead nis squadron and wing with the
utmost gallantry on all occasions. He has now destroyed a total of ten hostile
aircraft and damaged several more.
**** This fearless pilot has recently added a further four enemy aircraft to
his previous successes; in addition he has probably destroyed another four and
damaged five hostile aircraft. By his fine leadership and high courage Wing
Commander Bader has inspired the wing on every occasion.
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Education: St Edward's School, Oxford; RAF College,
Cranwell
26.07.1930
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first
commission
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12.1931
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lost
both legs in flying accident
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05.1933
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invalided
out of RAF
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1933
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joined
Asiatic Petroleum Co. Ltd
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26.11.1939
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-
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21.07.1946
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recalled to
active service
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02.1940
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-
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04.1940
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19 Squadron
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04.1940
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-
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06.1940
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Flight
Commander, A Flight, 222 Squadron
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06.1940
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-
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?
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Commanding Officer,
242
Squadron
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?
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-
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09.08.1941
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Commanding Officer,
12 Group
Wing
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09.08.1941
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-
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15.04.1945
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captured after collision with enemy aircraft over Bethune; released by
American 1st Army from Colditz, near Leipzig
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11.07.1940
30.08.1940
15.09.1940
27.09.1940
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23
victories:
1 Do 17
½ Bf 110
½ Do 17
1 Bf 109
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Rejoined Shell Petroleum Co. (late Asiatic
Petroleum Co.); Man. Dir, Shell Aircraft Ltd, 1958-69, retd. Led first postwar
Battle of Britain flypast, 15 September 1945. Member, Civil Aviation
Authority, 1972-78; Chaiman, Flight Time Limitations Board, 1974-78.
FRAeS 1976. Hon. DSc New Univ. of Ulster, 1976. DL Greater London, 1977.
Published: Fight for the sky : the story
of the Spitfire and the Hurricane (1973)
Literature: Paul Brickhill, Reach for the sky
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Badley,
William
 |
23.04.1887
-
died between 04.1956 and 1996
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Sq.Ldr.
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01.01.1937 [13057]
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(T) W/Cdr.
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01.06.1940 (retd
23.04.1942)
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01.04.1918
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first
commission RAF
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qualified
at specialist engineering course
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24.04.1942
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-
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23.01.1945
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re-employed
on active service
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Bailey,
Leonard Shaw Meadows

Married R.A. Bailey (née ...).
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30.03.1909
Amesbury, Wiltshire
-
died before 1996
[Enborne, nr Newbury]
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Wt.Off.
|
? [507896]
|
F/O (prob)
|
01.04.1940 [43412]
|
F/O
|
01.04.1940
|
(WS) F/Lt.
|
01.04.1940
|
(A) Sq.Ldr.
|
(1942)
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(T) Sq.Ldr.
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01.06.1942
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(WS) Sq.Ldr.
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15.12.1944
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Sq.Ldr.
|
01.01.1947,
seniority 01.09.1945 (retd 31.12.1954; own request; retaining rank of
W/Cdr.)
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(A) W/Cdr.
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?
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DFC
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23.03.1945
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?
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AFC
|
11.07.1940
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?
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MID
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11.06.1942
|
?
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MID
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?
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?
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39|45
St
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?
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?
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AirEur
St
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?
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?
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Def
M
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?
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?
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BWM
39|45
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?
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?
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LSGCM
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?
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?
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01.04.1940
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commissioned,
RAF (General Duties Branch) [emergency commission]
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(1945)
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35 Squadron
RAF
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01.01.1947
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transferred,
Aircraft Control Branch [extended service]
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02.10.1948
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permanent
commission
|
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Bailey,
Sidney James
 |
30.06.1894
St Olave Southwark, London
-
died between 04.1956 and 1996
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F/Lt.
|
? [13218]
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Sq.Ldr.
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01.01.1937
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(A) Gp.Capt.
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?
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(T) Gp.Capt.
|
01.01.1944
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Gp.Capt.
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01.07.1947 (retd
27.05.1949)
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CBE
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01.01.1946
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New
Year 46
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MBE
|
03.06.1930
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HM's
birthday 30
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01.04.1918
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first
commission
|
|
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observer
officer
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?
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|
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transferred
from General Duties Branch to Secretarial Branch
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Bain,
Richard Erskine
 |
26.10.1900
-
died between 04.1956 and 1996
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F/Lt.
|
?
[17074]
|
Sq.Ldr.
|
01.10.1936
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(T) W/Cdr.
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01.01.1940
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(WS) W/Cdr.
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01.11.1942
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W/Cdr.
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01.07.1947
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(T) Gp.Capt.
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01.01.1944-01.11.1947 (retd 01.07.1950)
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13.11.1922
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first
commission
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(01.1939)
|
-
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late
1939
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Commanding
Officer, 43 Squadron RAF (Tangmere)
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Baker,
Ernest Reginald
"Reg(gie)"
Son of William and Eliza Baker.
Married (28.09.1940, Portsdown, Hampshire) Norma E.M. Snelling (born 1920), of Bedhampton,
Hampshire, England; one daughter, one son.
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30.03.1914
Doncaster, Yorkshire
-
16.06.1944
(KIA) [age 30]
[Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery, France, XIII.H.11]
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(A) P/O (prob)
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07.05.1938
[40660]
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F/O
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17.08.1940
|
(WS) F/Lt.
|
17.08.1941
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(A) Sq.Ldr.
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08.1942?
|
(T) Sq.Ldr.
|
01.07.1943
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(WS) Sq.Ldr.
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02.04.1944
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(A) W/Cdr.
|
05.12.1943?
|
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DSO
|
21.11.1944
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*
[with effect from 15.06.1944] (posthumously) [investiture next-of-kin
20.02.45]
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DFC
|
22.11.1940
|
U-boat
attack 16.08.40 &tc. [investiture 03.03.41]
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DFC
|
01.10.1943
|
recent
operations 08-09.43
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* Since being awarded a bar to the
Distinguished Flying Cross in August 1943, this officer has led a large number
of fighter bomber attacks against enemy shipping and constructional targets
and has personally destroyed three enemy aircraft. In October 1943, Wing
Commander Baker carried out a hazardous attack at point blank range on enemy
shipping under heavy fire, to score a direct hit. By his outstanding
leadership, courage, and determination, he has set a splendid example to his
officers and men.
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07.05.1938
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first
commission, RAF (General Duties Branch) [short service commission]
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17.01.1942
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transferred,
Reserve of Air Force Officers (and called up for Air Force service)
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(1939)
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-
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30.05.1942
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210
Squadron RAF
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04.1941
|
-
|
12.1941
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seconded
for a specialist navigation course (Ottawa, Ont., Canada), but was on arrival
diverted to ferrying between Bermuda and England; 08.1941 back in the UK, but
then off again to Canada for his course (15.09-26.12.1941)
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31.05.1942
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-
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28.07.1942
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240
Squadron RAF (on his way to India crashed at Malta; wounded)
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07.1942
|
-
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09.1942
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hospitalized,
then temporary Chief Navigation Officer at HQ Malta
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02.09.1942
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No
1 Depot RAF, UK (pending repatriation)
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09.1942
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-
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10.1942
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possibly
serving with 263 Squadron RAF
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06.10.1942
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HQ
No. 9 Group RAF (for navigational duties)
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05.11.1942
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HQ
Fighter Command (for navigational duties)
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29.12.1942
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refresher
course, 59 Operational Training Unit (Millfield, Northumberland)
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11.02.1943
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182
Squadron RAF (Martlesham Heath, Suffolk, from 05.04.1943 Fairlop, from
29.04.1943 Lasham) (wounded 13.05.1943, in hospital till 27.05.1943)
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15.06.1943
|
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Commanding
Officer, 263 Squadron RAF (Warmwell, Dorset; 19.06.1943 Zeals, Wiltshire;
12.07.1943 Warmwell; 07.09.1943 Manston, Kent; 10.09.1943 Warmwell)
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05.12.1943
|
|
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Wing
Commander (Flying) Colerne and taken by Oxford to Fighter Leaders Course
Ashton Down
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01.1944
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-
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16.06.1944
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Wing
Commander (Flying) 193
Squadron (Harrowbeer), 01.02.1944 redesignated: Commander Flying of No.
146 Airfield (11.05.1944 redesignated No. 146 Wing)
[crashed near St. Mauvieu, France]
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Honorary Freedom of Doncaster, 30.06.1941.
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Baker,
George Brindley Aufrere

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25.07.1894
-
23.10.1968
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...
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...
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(T) Air Vice Marshal
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10.01.1941 (retd
28.07.1946)
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...
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-
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...
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...
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1940
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Member,
British Purchasing Mission, USA
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12.09.1941
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Senior Air Staff Officer,
HQ Coastal Command
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01.01.1943
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AOA,
HQ Technical Training Command
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01.07.1944
|
-
|
1945
|
Chief
of Staff RAF (Air), Mediterranean Allied Air Forces
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01.12.1945
|
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Director
of Training (Plans) in Department of Air Member for Training
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Baker,
Thomas Herbert
"Tom"

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16.08.1913
Deolali, Bombay, India
-
09.03.2006
[Grantham ?], Suffolk
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Sgt.
|
? [563032]
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P/O (prob)
|
18.04.1941,
seniority 09.04.1941 [45552]
|
(A) F/O
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(1941)
|
(WS) F/O
|
22.01.1942
|
(WS) F/Lt.
|
22.01.1943
|
F/Lt.
|
01.07.1946,
seniority 01.01.1943
|
Sq.Ldr.
|
01.11.1947,
seniority 01.08.1947
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W/Cdr.
|
01.01.1955
(retd 28.01.1958)
|
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DFC
|
12.09.1941
|
raid
on Knapsack power station 12.08.41
|
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DFM
|
24.12.1940
|
?
|
|
MID
|
12.1941
|
?
|
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Education: Portsmouth and Lancaster Grammar Schools
01.1921
|
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joined
RAF at Halton as an Aircraft Apprentice
|
1939
|
|
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observer,
90 Squadron RAF
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07.1940
|
|
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observer,
107 Squadron RAF (Wattisham, Suffolk)
|
18.04.1941
|
|
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first
commission, RAF (General Duties Branch) [emergency commission to 30.06.1946]
|
04.1941
|
-
|
17.04.1942
|
observer
(later instructor & bombing leader), 114 Squadron RAF (Norfolk)
[taken off 21.36 hrs 17.04.1942 in Blenheim
Z7430 RT-Q from West Raynham for an Intruder operation to Schiphol Airport
(The Netherlands); damaged by light Flak and crash-landed 23.22 hrs at
Aalsmeer; wounded & captured]
|
17.04.1942
|
-
|
29.04.1945
|
POW
in German captivity at Stalag Luft III (Sagan), from 02.1945 Stalag Luft VIIID
(Nuremburg)
|
01.07.1946
|
|
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permanent
commission
|
...
|
-
|
...
|
...
|
|
Baldwin,
Sir John
Eustace Arthur
"Jack"

Eldest son of late J.H.L. Baldwin. Married
Kathleen Betsy, youngest daughter of T.W.L. Terry, York; one daughter.
see: www.rafweb.org |
13.04.1892
-
28.07.1975
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...
|
...
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(A) Air Marshal (retd)
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10.10.1942
|
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Education: Rugby; Royal Military College, Sandhurst
28.08.1939
|
-
|
14.09.1942
|
Air Officer
Commanding, No. 3 Group RAF
|
09.01.1942
|
-
|
21.02.1942
|
Acting Air
Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Bomber Command
|
09.10.1942
|
-
|
1943
|
Deputy Air
Officer Commanding-in-Chief, India
|
16.11.1943
|
-
|
1944
|
Air Officer
Commanding, 3rd
Tactical Air Force
|
Colonel, 8th King's Royal Irish Hussars, 01.01.1948-24.10.1958.
Deputy Colonel, Queen's Royal Irish Hussars, 24.10.1958-1960.
OStJ, 24.06.1952. CStJ, 01.07.1955. KStJ, 03.07.1962.
Deputy Lieutenant for the County of Lincoln, 06.11.1945. Justice of the Peace (JP), Rutland.
Sheriff, Rutland, 12.11.1952. High Sheriff,
Rutland, 17.03.1955.
|
Baldwin,
John Robert
|
?
-
15.03.1952
Korea
|
(T) F/Sgt.
|
?
[908634]
|
P/O
|
14.03.1942
[122337]
|
...
|
...
|
Sq.Ldr.
|
01.09.1945
|
(A) W/Cdr.
|
?
|
|
DSO
|
?
|
?
|
|
DFC
|
?
|
?
|
|
AFC
|
01.01.1948
|
?
|
|
DFC(US)
|
30.10.1953
|
?
|
|
14.03.1942
|
|
|
first
commission RAF (General Duties Branch)
|
1942
|
-
|
1944
|
Typhoon
pilot with 15 victories
|
|
|
|
led a team of four pilots from the RAF Central Fighter Establishment on attachment to the USAF in Korea
(flew with the 16th Fighter Interceptor Squadron of the 51st Fighter Interceptor Wing)
|
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Balean,
Peter Bradford
|
25.08.1920
-
1996
[Saint Andrew Churchyard
Cranwell, Lincolnshire]
|
P/O
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23.12.1939
[33531]
|
...
|
...
|
Sq.Ldr.
|
01.08.1947
(retd 12.06.1950)
|
|
23.12.1939
|
|
|
first
commission RAF (General Duties Branch)
|
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Ballantyne,
Gordon Arthur
Eldest son of late John Alexander and Ida Ballantyne.
Married 1st (1925) Brenda Muriel, daughter of Rev. Bernard Cuzner; one
daughter.
Married 2nd (1945) Rachel Mary, elder daughter of late Francis Reid Brown.
|
12.02.1900
Wandsworth, London
-
07.11.1981
Canterbury, Kent
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RNAS:
|
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(P) F/O
|
1917
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Army:
|
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2nd Lt.
|
?
|
(T) Lt.
|
01.01.1924
|
Lt.
|
28.08.1924
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Capt.
|
01.07.1927 (retd
05.01.1929)
|
Capt.
|
02.09.1929,
seniority 25.02.1928
|
RAF:
|
|
(T) F/O [?]
|
1918 [23096]
|
(T) F/O
|
01.01.1924
|
(T) F/Lt.
|
?
|
F/Lt.
|
01.07.1930
|
Sq.Ldr.
|
28.08.1934
|
W/Cdr.
|
01.07.1937
|
(A) Gp.Capt.
|
1941
|
(T) Gp.Capt.
|
01.03.1942
|
Gp.Capt.
|
01.06.1943
|
(A) A/Cdre.
|
1943
|
(T) A/Cdre.
|
1944
|
A/Cdre.
|
01.09.1947,
seniority 01.07.1947
|
Air Vice-Marshal
|
01.10.1952 (retd
01.01.1955)
|
|
CBE
|
14.06.1945
|
HM's
birthday 45
|
|
DFC
|
1918
|
?
|
|
Education: King's College School; London Hospital
1917
|
|
|
Probationary Flight Officer, Royal Naval Air
Service
|
1917
|
-
|
1918
|
served in France with No 8 Squadron, RFC
(France & Belgium; wounded)
|
01.04.1918
|
|
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first
commission RAF
|
11.09.1919
|
|
|
transferred
to the unemployed list
|
1923
|
|
|
qualified
as Dental Surgeon (LDS, RCS), General List, Army
|
01.01.1924
|
|
|
temporary
commission RAF (Medical Branch) [on attachment to the RAF]
|
1924
|
|
|
Lieutenant,
Army Dental Corps
|
05.09.1927
|
-
|
05.01.1929
|
returned
to Army duty (resigned comission)
|
02.09.1929
|
-
|
01.07.1930
|
served
again in the Army Dental Corps
|
01.07.1930
|
|
|
permanent
commission, RAF (Dental Branch)
|
1935
|
|
|
Senior Dental Officer,
Iraq
|
1938
|
|
|
Inspecting Dental Officer, Home
Commands
|
1941
|
|
|
Training Officer
(Dental)
|
01.06.1943
|
-
|
(04.)1954
|
Director of Dental Services,
Directorate- General of RAF Medical Services, Air Ministry
|
FDSRCS; FDSRCS (Edin.)
Honorary Dental Surgeon to King George VI, 13.04.1945-10.06.1952 & to Queen
Elizabeth II, 10.06.1952-01.01.1955. Member Board of Faculty of Dental Surgery of Royal
College of Surgeons of England, 1947-53; Honorary member, British Dental Association;
Honorary President Armed Forces Commission, Federation Dentaire Internationale, 1953;
Honorary Dental Surgeon to the Queen, 1952-54.
Published: various professional papers
|
Bandon,
5th Earl of, cr. 1880, succ. 1924;
Baron Bandon, cr. 1793;
Viscount Bandon, cr. 1795;
Viscount Bernard, cr. 1800;
Bernard, Percy Ronald Gardner

Son of late LtCol Ronald P. H. Bernard and
Lettice Mina, younger daughter of late Captain Gerald C. S. Paget (she married
2nd, late Hon. Charles C. J. Littleton, DSO); married 1st, 1933, Elizabeth
(marr. diss., 1946; she married 1965, Sir Reginald Holcroft, 2nd Bt, TD), 2nd
daughter of R. W. Playfair; two daughters; 2nd, 1946, Lois White, daughter of
Francis Russell, Victoria, Australia.
|
30.08.1904
-
08.02.1979
[Bandon, Co. Cork ?] |
P/O
|
17.12.1924 [16145]
|
Sq.Ldr.
|
01.12.1936
|
Air Chief Marshal
|
01.07.1959 (retd
06.02.1964)
|
|
|
GBE |
1961 |
? |
|
|
KBE |
01.01.1957 |
? |
|
CB |
05.07.1945 |
? |
|
|
CVO |
1953 |
? |
|
DSO |
30.07.1940 |
? |
|
MID |
01.01.1941 |
? |
|
MID |
01.01.1943 |
? |
|
MID |
01.01.1945 |
? |
|
|
DFC(US) |
20.12.1946 |
? |
|
Education: Wellington; RAF College, Cranwell (psa);
RAF Staff College (1938); Imperial Defence College (idc, 1949)
| 1939 |
-
|
1940
|
commanded
No 82 Squadron
|
| 1941 |
-
|
1942
|
commanded
RAF Station, West Raynham
|
| 1945 |
|
|
AOC No 224
Group, SouthEast Asia (despatches thrice, US DFC
and Bronze Star)
|
| 1945 |
-
|
1948
|
Commandant,
ROC
|
| 1950 |
-
|
1951
|
AOC
No 2 Group, BAFO, Germany
|
| 1951 |
-
|
1953
|
AOC
No 11 Group
|
| 01.10.1953 |
-
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12.1955
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Assistant
Chief of the Air Staff (Training), Air Ministry
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| 1955 |
-
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1957
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Commander-in-Chief,
2nd Tactical Air Force, and Comdr, 2nd Allied Tactical Air Force
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| 1957 |
-
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1960
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Commander-in-Chief,
Far East Air Force
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| 1961 |
-
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1963
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Commander,
Allied Air Forces, Central Europe
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Bardon,
Harold Rice
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17.11.1902
-
09.1986
Winchester, Hampshire
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Sq.Ldr.
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01.04.1937
[19178]
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(T) W/Cdr.
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01.03.1940
(retd 14.10.1947; medical unfitness)
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31.03.1925
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first
commission
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qualified
at a specialist course in engineering; additionally qualified at university
course in engineering
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24.04.1940
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transferred
fron the General Duties Branch to the Technical Branch
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Barling,
Leslie Clement

Son of Percy Clement Barling and Julia
Bertwell; married 1st Claudia E.T. Phillips (02.1939); married 2nd Katherine
Yvonne Beith or Clifford-Turner; one son.
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13.12.1901
Chertsey
-
08.04.1984
Cheltenham
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Barnett,
Reginald James William

Only son of Mr and Mrs W. Barnett, formerly
from Dover and Capel.
Married (19.05.1936, Southsea) Diana Mary Allan (born 27.07.1913, Reigate,
Surrey) [her elder sister married F/Lt.
J.F.L. Zorn, RAFO]; three children.
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(03?).1909
Dover district, Kent
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15.02.1943
(flying accident at asmara airport) [age 33]
[Asmara War Cemetery, Eritrea, 3.D.3]
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P/O (prob)
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11.04.1930 [29057]
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P/O
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11.04.1931
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F/O
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13.10.1931
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F/Lt.
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01.02.1936
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Education: Godwynhurst College, Dover
Secretary of the Dover Motor Cycle Club.
11.04.1930
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commissioned,
RAF (General Duties Branch) [short service commission]
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11.04.1936
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transferred,
Reserve of Air Force Officers (Class A); joined Imperial Airways, flying in
Africa since 1940
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Engaged as as a pilot by Portsmouth, Southsea, and Isle of Wight Aviation,
then joined Imperial Airways. 10.1937 posted to Empire Flying boat Operations as 1st Officer.
Two years later transferred for a short time to European Landplan | |