Royal Air Force Officers 1939-1945 -- N

Royal Air Force (RAF) Officers
1939-1945

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R.R. Nash to F.E. Nuttall

Nash,
Richard Rupert
?
-

Sq.Ldr. 01.04.1937

Neate,
Roland Greville
"Bob"
05.07.1918
-
04.02.2007
Yeovil, Somerset

Sgt.
? [542178]

P/O (prob)
12.02.1944 [55521]

P/O
12.08.1944

(WS) F/O
12.08.1944

(WS) F/Lt.
12.02.1946

F/O
22.05.1947, seniority 12.02.1946

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W/Cdr.
01.07.1961 (retd 30.10.1964)

12.02.1944

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

22.05.1947

extended service commission and transferred to the Secretarial Branch

Nettleton,
John Dering
J.D. Nettleton

Wikipedia
28.06.1917
Nongoma, Natal, South Africa
-
13.07.1943
Turin, Italy

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Sq.Ldr.
?

W/Cdr.
?

VC
1942
?

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Nicolson,
[Eric] James Brindley
J.B. Nicolson

Son of Leslie Gibson Nicolson and Dorothea Hilda Nicolson, Shoreham-by-Sea; Married (1939) Muriel Caroline Nicolson, of Kirkby Wharfe, Yorkshire; one son.
29.04.1917
Hampstead, London
-
02.05.1945
off Calcutta, India
[Singapore Memorial, Kranji Cemetery, column 445]

(A) P/O (prob) 21.12.1936 [39329]

P/O 12.10.1937

F/O 12.05.1939

F/Lt. 03.09.1940

(T) Sq.Ldr. 01.12.1941

(WS) Sq.Ldr. 19.01.1945, seniority 17.06.1942

(A) W/Cdr. (1944)

VC
15.11.1940
* [only Fighter Command VC]

DFC
11.08.1944
?

* During an engagement with the enemy near Southampton on 16th August, 1940, Flight Lieutenant Nicolson's aircraft was hit by four cannon shells, two of which wounded him whilst another set fire to the gravity tank. When about to abandon his aircraft owing to flames in the cockpit he sighted an enemy fighter. This he attacked and shot down, although as a result of staying in his burning aircraft he sustained serious burns to his hands, face, neck and legs. Flight Lieutenant Nicolson has always displayed great enthusiasm for air fighting and this incident shows that he possesses courage and determination of a high order. By continuing to engage the enemy after he had been wounded and his aircraft set on fire, he displayed exceptional gallantry and disregard for the safety of his own life.
Education: Yardley Court Preparatory School, Tonbridge, and Tonbridge School

1935 - 1936 experimental engineering at Ricardo's Works, Shoreham

10.1936 joined RAF

12.1936 short service commission RAF

08.1937 - 05.1938 72 Squadron

05.1939 - (1940) 249 Squadron

transferred to reserve (RAFO)

1942 - 1943 1942 saw him in India, and in August 1943 he was leading a squadron of fighters in Birma

(1944) 27 Squadron

(1945) 355 Squadron

02.05.1945 killed when his aircraft, a Liberator, crashed, after catching fire, in the Bay of Bengal

16.08.1940 victories:
1 Bf 109

Literature: Peter D. Mason, Nicolson VC : full and authorised biography of James Brindley Nicolson (1991)

Norman,
Sir Henry Nigel St Valery;
2nd Baronet, cr. 1915, succ. 1939
H.N.St.V. Norman
Son of Rt Hon. Sir Henry Norman, 1st Bt, and Ménie Muriel Dowie.
Married (1926)
Patricia Moyra, eldest daughter of late Lt.Col. J.H.A. Annesley, DSO, CMG; three sons.
21.05.1897
-
19.05.1943
(aircraft accident)

Sq.Ldr. AAFRO
03.09.1939

Gp.Capt. AAFRO
?

Education: Winchester; Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; Trinity College, Cambridge, MA

served France, in RGA and RE, 1916-1919; Metropolitan Railway, 1922-1928; Private Aeroplane owner since 1926; with F. A. I.
Muntz founded Airwork Ltd to construct and develop Heston Airport, 1928; Commanded No. 601 (County of London) Squadron, AAF; in course of professional work has flown extensively over Europe, North America, Africa and India; in partnership has specialized in planning of major airports in United Kingdom
and abroad

Commander, 38 Wing RAF (for support of 1st Airborne Division)

Aeronautical Consultant; Chairman, Airwork Ltd, Heston; Partner, Norman, and Dawbarn, Aeronautical Consulting Engineers and Architects; Fellow, Royal Aeronautical Society
Published: Papers read before Institute of Town Planning, Royal Aeronautical Society, Architectural Association, London Society, Chartered Surveyors' Institution, etc.

Norrington,
Harry
H. Norrington ?
-

Sq.Ldr. 01.07.1936

qualified at specialist engineering course

North-Lewis,
Christopher David
"Kit"
C.D. North-Lewis

13.03.1918
-
25.03.2008
Harting, nr Petersfield, Sussex

P/O
04.12.1940 [45073]

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A/Cdre.
01.01.1964 (retd 01.02.1971)

21.06.1939

commissioned, Queen Victoria's Rifles, King's Royal Rifle Corps - Territorial Army (2nd Lieutenant 24.08.1939, War Substantive Lieutenant 01.01.1941)

04.12.1940

commissioned, RAF (General Duties Branch)

Nowell,
Henry Edward
H.E. Nowell ?
-

Sq.Ldr. 01.02.1937

qualified at specialist engineering course

Nuttall,
Frank Edward
F.E. Nuttall 05.03.1903
-
21.09.1978
[Saint Andrew Churchyard
Cranwell, Lincolnshire]

Sq.Ldr.
01.02.1937 (retd 30.06.1937)

W/Cdr.
?

(T) Gp.Capt.
01.01.1943

CBE
?
?

20.12.1922

first commission

26.08.1939
-
17.11.1946
recalled to active service

DL

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