The Pilots of 41 Squadron RAF,
1923-1939
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| Name |
HALE-MONRO, Thomas Adrian |
| Number |
18099/107170 |
| Rank |
Pilot Officer, Flying
Officer |
| Nationality |
British |
| Born |
Wandsworth, London,
28 September 1904 |
| Arrived |
11 June 1924 |
| Departed |
6 November 1927 |
| Notes |
Commissioned Nov
1923; transferred to RAFO, Nov 1928; studied medicine; relinquished
commission on appointment to commission in Medical Branch RAFVR
(by then MRCS, LRCP), Aug 1941; died Hastings, 17 May 1993 |
| Name |
HARDS, Alan Frederick |
| Number |
33113 |
| Rank |
Pilot Officer |
| Nationality |
British |
| Born |
Bromley, Kent,
17 May
1914 |
| Arrived |
28 July 1934 |
| Departed |
30 July 1935 |
| Decorations |
DSO (1942), MiD
(1943) |
| Notes |
Commissioned on
graduation from Cranwell, Jul 1934; killed in a flying accident
in a German aircraft as Gp Capt, 18 Jan 1946, aged 31; son of
AVM Frederick G. D. Hards CBE DSO DFC, & Alice Hards, &
husband of Rosemary M. Hards of Cuckfield, Sussex; Panel 2 of
Woking (St. John’s) Crematorium, Surrey |
| Name |
HARRIS, Albert Henry 'Bill' |
| Number |
563510 |
| Rank |
Sergeant Pilot |
| Nationality |
British |
| Born |
Cambridge, 18 October
1912 |
| Arrived |
5 July 1936 |
| Departed |
18 October 1939 |
| Notes |
Killed in a flying
accident 18 October 1939, aged 27; son of Arthur & Eva
Harris, husband of Violet A. Harris, of Toronto, Ont, Canada;
buried Section O, Grave 209, of St Laurence Churchyard, South
Hinskey, Berkshire |
| Name |
HAVERCROFT, Ralph Edward ‘Tich’ |
| Number |
740168 |
| Rank |
Sergeant Pilot |
| Nationality |
British |
| Born |
Lands End, Cornwall,
4 June 1916 |
| Arrived |
1 May 1939 |
| Departed |
10 July 1939 |
| Decorations |
AFC (1949) |
| Notes |
Joined RAFVR, 1937;
commissioned Nov 1941; retired as Wg Cdr, Jun 1963; died Aspley
Guise, Bedfordshire, 6 May 1995 |
| Name |
HEALY, Ernest Alton |
| Number |
16053 |
| Rank |
Flight Lieutenant |
| Nationality |
Irish |
| Born |
Dublin, Eire, 29
January 1900 |
| Arrived |
28 January 1936
(arrived on Sqn 12 Feb 36) |
| Departed |
24 September 1936 |
| Decorations |
MiD (1941) |
| Notes |
Commissioned on
graduation from Cranwell, Aug 1922; retired Nov 1946, retaining
Gp Capt; died Winfrith Newburgh, Dorchester, Dorset, 30
January
1978 |
| Name |
HEARN, Morris Edward |
| Number |
336698 |
| Rank |
Sergeant Pilot |
| Nationality |
British |
| Born |
Malden, Essex,
20 December 1901 |
| Arrived |
26 July 1927 |
| Departed |
8 March 1928 |
| Notes |
Rejoined RAFVR,
1939-41; civil pilot, Land's End to Scilly Isles, 1942-62; retired
Mar 1962; died Leatherhead, Surrey, 24 March 1977 |
| Name |
HIBBERT, John Edward |
| Number |
40537 |
| Rank |
Pilot Officer |
| Nationality |
British |
| Born |
Stockport,
Cheshire, April 1914 |
| Arrived |
1 May 1939 |
| Departed |
24 November 1939 |
| Notes |
Commissioned,
Feb 1938; Adjutant, 41 Sqn, ca Aug-24 Nov 1939; injured in motor
vehicle accident, 24 Nov 1939, & did not return to 41 Sqn
after recuperation; transferred to Secretarial Branch, Nov 1948;
retired as Sqn Ldr, Dec 1949 |
| Name |
HILTON, Louis
Massey |
| Number |
Unknown |
| Rank |
Flight Lieutenant |
| Nationality |
British |
| Born |
St. Annes’s-on-Sea,
Lancashire, 29 March 1899 |
| Arrived |
17 November 1930 |
| Departed |
22 April 1931 |
| Decorations |
DFC (1919), AFC
(1927) |
| Notes |
Commissioned Apr
1918; resigned from RAF, Apr 1931; employed by Fairey Aviation
Co., 1931-56; died Old Windsor, Berkshire, 29 November 1958 |
| Name |
HOWITT, Isaac Edward 'Ted' |
| Number |
580341 |
| Rank |
Sergeant Pilot |
| Nationality |
British |
| Born |
Grantham, Lincolnshire,
24 December 1911 |
| Arrived |
8 August 1937 |
| Departed |
15 December 1940 |
| Notes |
Commissioned Oct
1941; released 1945; emigrated to Canada, 1949; died Toronto,
Canada, August 2004 |
| Name |
HUSBANDS, William Herbert |
| Number |
29169 |
| Rank |
Pilot Officer, Flying
Officer |
| Nationality |
British |
| Born |
Southampton,
Hants, 2 May 1911 |
| Arrived |
26 September 1931 |
| Departed |
7 August 1934 |
| Decorations |
MiD (1942), OBE
(1943), MiD (1944) |
| Notes |
Commissioned Oct
1930; retired as Gp Capt, Jan 1957; died Tavistock, Devon,
30 April 1966 |
| Name |
HUSKINSON, Patrick |
| Number |
02189 |
| Rank |
Squadron Leader |
| Nationality |
British |
| Born |
Fardon, Nottinghamshire,
17 March 1897 |
| Arrived |
1 February 1930 |
| Departed |
24 October 1931 |
| Decorations |
MC (1916), Bar to
MC (1918), CBE (1942), U.S. Legion of Merit (1945) |
| Notes |
Commissioned on
graduation from Sandhurst, 1915; seconded to RFC, 1915; OC,
41 Sqn, 6 Feb 1930-24 Oct 1931; injured & blinded in German
bombing of London, night of 14–15 Apr 1941; retired (invalid)
Jan 1942, retaining Air Cdre; died London, 24 Nov 1966 |
| Name |
HUTTON, Philip Alexander |
| Number |
157736 |
| Rank |
Sergeant Pilot |
| Nationality |
British |
| Born |
Stirling,
Scotland, 16
July 1901 |
| Arrived |
24 December 1923 |
| Departed |
21 January 1924 |
| Notes |
Joined RFC as Boy,
4 Dec 1917; emigrated to Canada, Dec 1927, killed in flying
accident, Rainy River, Ontario, 18 Aug 1931 |
| Name |
HYDE, William
Vincent |
| Number |
07171 |
| Rank |
Flying Officer |
| Nationality |
British |
| Born |
Poplar, London,
23 March 1898 |
| Arrived |
4 April 1923 |
| Departed |
18 March 1925 |
| Notes |
Commissioned 1917;
Unemployed List, Nov 1919; permanent commission, Jun 1927; transferred
to RAFO as Wg Cdr, Mar 1940; retired 15 Nov 1946; died
Bexhill on Sea, 18 March 1976 |
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