The Pilots of 41 Squadron RAF,
1923-1939
Surnames D
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| Name |
DALE, Ivor Gordon Easton |
| Number |
19182 |
| Rank |
Pilot Officer, Flying
Officer |
| Nationality |
British |
| Born |
Caterham Valley, Surrey,
10 April 1905 |
| Arrived |
28 September 1925 |
| Departed |
17 January 1930 |
| Decorations |
DFC (1944) |
| Notes |
Commissioned Mar
1925; transferred to RAFO, Nov 1934; mobilised 1939; killed
as Wg Cdr in 21 Sqn Mosquito, Ophoven, 2 Feb 1945; buried Stittard
War Cemetery, Netherlands; son of Horace E. & Frances H.
Dale; husband of Norah L. Dale, of Cranbrook, Kent |
| Name |
DAMANT, Frederick Korsten |
| Number |
03206 |
| Rank |
Flying Officer,
Flight Lieutenant |
| Nationality |
South African |
| Born |
Bethlehem, Orange Free State,
South Africa, 11 March 1895 |
| Arrived |
1 April 1925 |
| Departed |
26 September 1929 |
| Decorations |
DFC (1922) |
| Notes |
Commissioned in
RAF, Sep 1918; KIFA, Cranwell, Lincs, 16 May 1941; son of Guybon C.
& Hendrina J. Damant; husband of Marjorie Damant of Hucknall,
Notts; buried in Grave 2.A.18, St. Andrew Churchyard,
Cranwell, Lincs |
| Name |
DANES, Roland Ernest William |
| Number |
326526 |
| Rank |
Sergeant Pilot |
| Nationality |
British |
| Born |
Greenwich,
London, 15 January 1903 |
| Arrived |
1928 |
| Departed |
1928 |
| Notes |
Commissioned (46206),
May 1941; retired 16 October 1946, retaining Sqn Ldr; died
Dovecourt, Harwich, 23 Dec 1976; further details sought |
| Name |
DAVIS, Edward Simeon Colbeck |
| Number |
16107 |
| Rank |
Flight Lieutenant |
| Nationality |
British |
| Born |
Cottingham, Yorkshire,
3 May 1904 |
| Arrived |
25 April 1932 |
| Departed |
29 May 1932 |
| Decorations |
AFC (1931), OBE
(1940), MiD (1941) |
| Notes |
Commissioned on
graduation from Cranwell, Dec 1923; KIA as Wg Cdr with 204 Sqn,
21 Jul 1940; remembered on Panel 3 of the Runnymede Memorial,
Surrey |
| Name |
DAWES, Denzil Thomas St. Hugh |
| Number |
37936 |
| Rank |
Pilot Officer |
| Nationality |
British |
| Born |
Swanage, Dorset,
22 July 1916 |
| Arrived |
21 February 1937 |
| Departed |
9 April 1937 |
| Notes |
Commissioned Jul
1936; FTR/KIA, 14 Dec 1940; remembered on Panel 239 of the Alamein
Memorial |
| Name |
DAWNAY, Michael |
| Number |
33082 |
| Rank |
Pilot Officer |
| Nationality |
British to Irish
parents |
| Born |
Marylebone, London,
24 October 1912 |
| Arrived |
6 December 1933 |
| Departed |
1 October 1934 |
| Notes |
Commissioned May
1931; permanent commission on graduation from Cranwell, Dec
1933; PA to AOC-in-C Fighter Command, Air Mshl Sir Hugh Dowding,
Jul 1936; died as Wg Cdr, 19 Mar 1946; son of late Maj the Hon
Hugh Dawnay DSO (KIA, 6 Nov 1914) & Lady Susan Dawnay of
Waterford, Ireland; husband of Julia Dawnay; buried in Grave
4. E. 7. of Klagenfurt War Cemetery, Austria |
| Name |
DEVANY, Alfred Alexander/Alexis 'Alec' |
| Number |
37937 |
| Rank |
Pilot Officer |
| Nationality |
British |
| Born |
Rostov-on-Don, Russia,
23 March 1914 |
| Arrived |
21 February 1937 |
| Departed |
21 March 1937 |
| Notes |
Commissioned Jul
1936; killed in a flying accident near Brough Airfield, Yorkshire,
after hitting high-tension wires in fog, 7 Feb 1938, aged 23;
son of late Hammond J. Devany and Julia A. Devany, nee Dzakowitch-Lidskaya;
buried Kensal Green Cem, London |
| Name |
DUNLOP, Alexander Ronald |
| Number |
19184 |
| Rank |
Pilot Officer |
| Nationality |
Scottish |
| Born |
Rutherglen, Scotland, 31 March 1902 |
| Arrived |
28 September 1925 |
| Departed |
3 November 1925 |
| Notes |
Commissioned Mar
1925; resigned commission 3 Nov 1925; emigrated to India and became a tea planter; died Calcutta, October 1943. |
| Name |
DURO, Hector |
| Number |
364587 |
| Rank |
Sergeant Pilot |
| Nationality |
British |
| Born |
Ilkeston,
Nottinghamshire, July 1908 |
| Arrived |
1929 |
| Departed |
1930 |
| Notes |
Commissioned Aug
1940; KIA in 7 Sqn Stirling, 21 Dec 1942; buried in Grave 3
of Seraincourt Churchyard, France; son of Joseph B. & Margaret
Duro, & husband of Dolores J. Duro, of Wollaton Park, Nottinghamshire |
| Name |
DUSTIN, David Louis |
| Number |
32005 |
| Rank |
Pilot Officer |
| Nationality |
New Zealander |
| Born |
Palmerston
North, New Zealand, 30
August 1909 |
| Arrived |
27 March 1932 |
| Departed |
30 September 1932 |
| Notes |
Commissioned Apr
1931; transferred to RAFO, Dec 1935; injured in a flying accident
when landing in fog in a Channel Air Ferries Ltd aircraft, Land’s
End Aerodrome, Cornwall, 25 June 1938; died of injuries, 26
June 1938. |
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