born 5.1.1918 Harlow,Essex
moved to Navestock,Essex 1923
educated Ongar Grammar School
farm worker
RAF Uxbridge 8.12.1939 (attested)
farm worker
called up 15.9.1941
ARC,Regent's Park,London
13 ITW
6 EFTS
Heaton Park,Manchester
to Canada April 1942
5 Manning Depot
17 EFTS
13 AFU
Pilot Officer 20.11.1942 (134555)
to UK
7 PRC
RAF Shawbury
29 OTU May 1943
5 LFS
207 Squadron 15.9.1943
A/Flight Lt
award DFC (23.5.1944)
617 Squadron 16.2.1944
pilot
Lancaster PD233
Op.Bergen,Norway
crashed Lille Landon,Norway 12.1.1945
POW
released 1.4.1945
West Malling until July 1945
Elsham Wolds (flying control officer) July 1945
15 Squadron March 1946
demobilised 1947
farmer in Essex postwar
father of Mark and Anne
