W.--- Cadet  Eleanor Lind 
 flag england  b. 20 Apr 1922, Brentford, Middlesex  18 Oct 1943 to 31 Dec 1943 

 

     

 

Father: Herman Peter Thygesen Lind (b. Denmark 1890, d. 1956, MD and founder of Peter Lind and Co., a company specialising in reinforced concrete work including the Waterloo Bridge over the Thames in 1945, and Mulberry harbour units in WWII], mother: Alba Christine [Katel, d.1981]

Eleanor had three sisters (Inger Kirstine [Laub], Betty [Jaegar] Helen Alexandra [Hartmann]) and a brother, Peter Michael Lind

Ed.  St Hilda's College Oxford

prev. Progress Chaser, Vickers-Armstrong

Address in 1943: Hamstone House, St George's Hill, Weybridge, Surrey


Ab initio trainee

Contract Terminated by ATA, after her 'at fault' accident on 4 Dec 1943 in Magister N5406, when she held off the approach too long, stalled and landed heavily, breaking the port undercarriage leg.


 Joined WRNS (Acting 3rd Officer from 25 Feb 1945)

 m. 1950 in Surrey, Harald Meltzer

 

d. 21 Jun 2014 - Oslo


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