educated at Charterhouse an Iron Founder (Bayliss, Jones & Bayliis Ltd, Wolverhampton) Address in 1941: 'Woodthorne', Tettenhall, Staffs Postings: 1FPP, 6FPP, 12FPP, 14FPP "A good pilot of sound average ability", but he was: a) severely reprimanded and given 2 extra duties for 'Neglect of Duty' in Jun-43; "When detailed for night duty pilot and fire-watcher, he left the airfield on two occasions without permission" and b) reprimanded in Feb-44 for taxiing a Proctor so carelesslythat the port wing hit a gate post. He seems to have settled down later; his discipline was regarded as "satisfactory" by late 1944.
m. Aline Johncelyne Spiers (nee Pickin), also an aviator, in 1946 Flew Proctor II G-AKXZ in the 1949 Goodyear Race He took out a patent in 1956: "Improvements in or relating to vices" (not that sort of vices, silly). Later Director and Secretary of Brockmore-Bede Aircraft of the Brockmoor Foundry Co., Brierley Hill, W. Midlands. d. 14 Nov 1992 - Titley Kington, Herefordshire Download ATA Pilot Personal Record (.zip file): |
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