The Pilots of 41 Squadron RAF,
1923-1939
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| Name |
GADD, Thomas |
| Number |
27158 |
| Rank |
Pilot Officer, Flying
Officer |
| Nationality |
British |
| Born |
Sale, Cheshire,
13 December 1909 |
| Arrived |
3 October 1929 |
| Departed |
23 October 1931 |
| Notes |
Commissioned Oct
28; transferred to RAFO, Oct 1933; Temp Sqn Ldr, Sep 1941; died
Totley, Sheffield, Yorkshire, 2 Jan 1976 |
| Name |
GAMBLEN, Douglas Robert |
| Number |
39657 |
| Rank |
Pilot Officer, Flying
Officer |
| Nationality |
British |
| Born |
Gosport, Hampshire, 14 January 1915 |
| Arrived |
27 November 1937 |
| Departed |
29 July 1940 |
| Notes |
KIA off Dover, 29
July 1940; remembered on Panel 5 of the Runnymede Memorial |
| Name |
GIBBS, Edward Philip Patrick ‘Gibbo’ |
| Number |
32225 |
| Rank |
Pilot Officer, Flying
Officer |
| Nationality |
British |
| Born |
Singapore, 21 February
1910 |
| Arrived |
28 August 1933 (att
8 Sqn, Aden, 18 Sep-31 Oct 1935) |
| Departed |
10 March 1936 |
| Decorations |
DFC (1942), MiD
(1942) |
| Notes |
Commissioned Sep
1932; transferred to RAFO, Mar 1938; shot down and injured west
of Fruges, July 1941, but evaded and reached Gibraltar, Sep
1941; retired Feb 1946; relinquished commission, Feb 1955, retaining
Wg Cdr; died Westminster, London, 23 Jan 1967 |
| Name |
GILLIES, James 'Jack' |
| Number |
519573 |
| Rank |
Sergeant Pilot |
| Nationality |
British |
| Born |
Doncaster, 1915 |
| Arrived |
1 April 1939 |
| Departed |
21 March 1940 |
| Decorations |
DFM (1941), MC (1944) |
| Notes |
Commissioned Nov
1941; KIA whilst serving with 136 Sqn in South East Asia, 21
Apr 1944, aged 29; remembered on Column 431 of the Singapore
Memorial, Singapore |
| Name |
GLOVER, Henry Lawrence Matthews |
| Number |
29138 |
| Rank |
Pilot Officer |
| Nationality |
New
Zealander |
| Born |
Dunedin, New Zealand,
2 February 1907 |
| Arrived |
8 September 1931 |
| Departed |
3 January 1932 |
| Decorations |
QCVSA (1958) |
| Notes |
Commissioned Sep
1930; transferred to RAFO, Mar 1937; relinquished commission
on cessation of service, Mar 1946; died Christchurch, Dorset,
11 December 1974 |
| Name |
GOUGH, William Frederick Rippen 'Bill' |
| Number |
17174 |
| Rank |
Flying Officer (Hon
Flt Lt) |
| Nationality |
British |
| Born |
Manchester, Lancashire,
1 April 1898 |
| Arrived |
27 April 1925 |
| Departed |
21 July 1925 |
| Notes |
Commissioned from
Royal Navy as Fg Off, Apr 23; relinquished commission, Apr 1930;
died Winchester, Hampshire, 6 May 1967 |
| Name |
GRAHAM, Edward ‘Ted’ |
| Number |
37449 |
| Rank |
Pilot Officer |
| Nationality |
British |
| Born |
Ebbw Vale, Monmouthshire,
21 June 1911 |
| Arrived |
24 April 1936 |
| Departed |
21 March 1937 |
| Notes |
Commissioned Nov
1935; transferred to RAFO, Nov 44; permanent commission as Sqn
Ldr & transferred to Secretarial Branch, Mar 1947; retired
Dec 1958, retaining Gp Capt, & emigrated to Australia, Aug
1963; died Canberra ACT, 7 Aug 1999 |
GREEN, Gilbert Ware Murlis,
see MURLIS-GREEN, Gilbert Ware
| Name |
GREY, Phillips Patrick |
| Number |
78816 |
| Rank |
Pilot Officer |
| Nationality |
British |
| Born |
Bakewell, Derbyshire,
1 July 1903 |
| Arrived |
15 December 1924 |
| Departed |
30 December 1924 |
| Notes |
Commissioned Jan
1924; transferred to RAFO, Jan 1929; relinquished commission
on cessation of service, Jan 1933; commissioned in RAFVR (18170),
Apr 1940; relinquished commission as Sqn Ldr, Feb 1954; died
Hindhead, Surrey, 29 Apr 1989 |
| Name |
GRINDELL, Gordon John |
| Number |
32226 |
| Rank |
Flying Officer |
| Nationality |
New Zealander |
| Born |
Geraldine, New Zealand,
20 August 1910 |
| Arrived |
22 September 19935 |
| Departed |
10 March 1936 |
| Decorations |
AFC (1940), DFC
(1943), MiD (1944), Bar to AFC (1950) |
| Notes |
Commissioned Sep
1932; promoted to Wg Cdr, Oct 1946; died Katanning, Western
Australia, 15 Mar 1966 |
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