M.----  2nd Officer Arthur Robert Pilgrim 
 flag england  b. 29 Sep 1904, Edmonton, Middx  15 Apr to 6 May 1941

   1938

     

 

A 'Developer and Builder'

 m. 1927 in Barnet, Ada Maud [Hulbert]

RAeC certificate 15789, 8 Apr 1938, on Tiger Moth at London Aeroplane Club

Address in 1939: Truro, Cornwall


 Postings: --

 


 Promoted to Sergeant, RAFVR in Feb 1944

 In the fifties he acquired a Czech-built Orlicon L-40 Meta Sokol, having "found it lying in a corner of a hangar in the north of England and decided to buy it" and in 1957, he made a forced landing on "the tenth fairway of Monktonhall golf course, Musselburgh", having run out of fuel on a flight from Elstree to Turnhouse.

 d. 10 Aug 1979 - Wicklow, Eire

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