RAF fatalities, 1926

[paulmcmillan]

Published: Saturday 08 May 1926
Newspaper: Yarmouth Independent
County: Norfolk, England
Type: Article | Words: 301 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Friday at the Funeral
Leading Aircraftsman Eric Bevan Dennes, whost home is at Road, Norwich,
and who was from . of the 19th Fighter Squadron. 1! \
stationed at Duxford. Cambridge-!:i . : will remembered that died ,
result of a motor-cycle accident row on Monday week

Monday 26th April 1926


Eric William Bevan Dennes #346522

Birth
06/05/1900 (6 May 1900)



Death
04/1926 (Apr 1926) Norwich Norfolk England

E W B Dennes 346522 1922 Royal Air Force

[paulmcmillan]

Accident 24 July 1926

While motor-cycling to, the R.A.F. sports meeting at Halton, Bucks,
yesterday two aircraftsmen David Curzon Lawrance, of Northampton,
and Sidney Charles Dwyer, attached to the 19th Squadron, Duxford, Cambs.,
crashed into a motor-bus at Luton.

Lawrance David C 18

David Curzon
Lawrance
1907
Hampshire
1923
363625
Scholar

D C Lawrence 363625 1924 Royal Air Force

Sidney Charles
Dwyer
1905
Yorkshire
1922
362366
Scholar

[Don Clark]

Paul,
A small correction, if I may...

Although the term aircraftsman/aircraftsmen began to appear for RAF OR men in recent years, and in a number of places, it is incorrect.

Aircraftman is certainly correct. Presumably Aircraftmen as a plural would be too.

Source: KR&ACI.

[paulmcmillan]

Don thanks for correction