The Pilots of 41 Squadron RAF,
1923-1939
Surnames M
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| Name |
MacDONALD, Duncan Stuart |
| Number |
37451 |
| Rank |
Pilot Officer, Flying
Officer, Flight Lieutenant |
| Nationality |
British |
| Born |
Dunyveg, Oban, Scotland,
15 March 1912 |
| Arrived |
24 April 1936 |
| Departed |
24 July 1939 |
| Decorations |
DFC (1940), DSO
(1945) |
| Notes |
Commissioned Nov
1935; changed name after marriage to hyphenated Wilson-MacDonald,
1947; retired Gp Capt, Jul 1963; died Surrey, 29 February 1996 |
| Name |
MacDONALD, Graeme Eaton |
| Number |
32159 |
| Rank |
Pilot Officer, Flying
Officer |
| Nationality |
New Zealand |
| Born |
Wainui, New Zealand,
28 December 1910 |
| Arrived |
21 August 1933 |
| Departed |
14 January 1935 |
| Notes |
Commissioned Mar
1932; KIA, south of Vrecht Canal, Netherlands, 28 April 1943,
aged 32; son of Thomas & Eveline G. Macdonald (nee Eaton),
of Wainui, New Zealand, & husband of Joan K. R. Macdonald
of Southsea, Hampshire; buried in Plot A, Row 1, Grave 2, Zwollerkerspel
(Voorst) General Cemetery, Overijssel, Netherlands |
| Name |
MACKENZIE, John Noble |
| Number |
40547 |
| Rank |
Pilot Officer, Flying
Officer, Flight Lieutenant, Supernumerary Squadron Leader |
| Nationality |
New Zealander |
| Born |
Goodwood, Otago,
New Zealand, 11 August 1914 |
| Term 1 |
17 September 1938-15
March 1941 |
| Term 2 |
1-9 February 1944 |
| Decorations |
DFC (1940) |
| Notes |
Commissioned in
RAF, Feb 1938; retired Dec 1957, retaining Sqn Ldr; died 28
March 1993 |
| Name |
MAHONY, Geoffrey John Comyn |
| Number |
19190 |
| Rank |
Pilot Officer, Flying
Officer |
| Nationality |
British |
| Born |
Marysboro, Cork,
Eire, 21 November 1901 |
| Arrived |
31 March 1925 |
| Departed |
14 July 1927 |
| Notes |
Commissioned Mar
1925; transferred to RAFO, Mar 1930; relinquished commission
on cessation of service, Mar 1934; commissioned in RAFO, Feb
1936; relinquished commission, Feb 1954, retaining Wg Cdr |
| Name |
MARETT, Harold Claude |
| Number |
22224 |
| Rank |
Flying Officer |
| Nationality |
New Zealander |
| Born |
Napier, Hawke’s
Bay, New Zealand, 14 October 1904 |
| Arrived |
17 December 1930 |
| Departed |
15 December 1931 |
| Notes |
Commissioned Jul
1926; killed in a flying accident, Great Ponton Heath, Lincolnshire,
12 Oct 1932; son of Alfred C. & Dharma Marett (nee Burley)
of Napier, New Zealand; buried Grantham Cemetery, Lincolnshire |
| Name |
MARSDEN, Bertram Joseph |
| Number |
364696/89296 |
| Rank |
Sergeant Pilot |
| Nationality |
Unknown |
| Born |
Lambeth, London,
3 August 1908 |
| Arrived |
1 April 1930 |
| Departed |
30 April 1934 |
| Notes |
Commissioned Jan
1941; killed in a flying accident, 8 Apr 1943, aged 34; son
of Albert E. & Mary E. Marsden; buried in European War Graves
Plot, Grave 94, of Harare (Pioneer) Cemetery, Zimbabwe |
| Name |
MARSDEN, Herbert |
| Number |
248900 |
| Rank |
Sergeant Pilot |
| Nationality |
British |
| Born |
Sheffield, Yorkshire,
19 October 1900 |
|
Arrived |
1926 |
| Departed |
1927 |
| Decorations |
AFM (1940) |
| Notes |
Transferred from
RNAS to RFC, Feb 1918; commissioned Mar 1941; died Northampton,
11 Nov 1983; further details sought |
| Name |
MARSH, Harry Alan |
| Number |
297743 |
| Rank |
Sergeant Pilot |
| Nationality |
British |
| Born |
Stratton, Dorset,
29 January 1901 |
| Arrived |
20 December 1923 |
| Departed |
21 January 1924 |
| Notes |
Commissioned in
RAFO, Sep 1936; early autogiro/helicopter pioneer & test
pilot; died Eastleigh, Hampshire, 13 Jun 1950 |
| Name |
MARTIN, Ronald Victor George |
| Number |
345057 |
| Rank |
Sergeant Pilot |
| Nationality |
British |
| Born |
Milton Damerel,
Devon, 31 July 1901 |
| Arrived |
1927 |
| Departed |
1927 |
| Notes |
Died Swindon, Apr
1999; is this the same RVG Martin who was Temp Lt RNVR, Jul
1942; transferred to RN as Lt, Jul 1942; Lt Cdr (E), Jul 1950? |
| Name |
MARTYN, William Wallace Haig |
| Number |
39323 |
| Rank |
Pilot Officer |
| Nationality |
Canadian |
| Born |
Winipeg, Manitoba,
Canada, 30 December 1915 |
| Arrived |
4 September 1937 |
| Departed |
14 July 1938 |
| Decorations |
MiD (1940), DSC
(1940), MiD (1942), Bar to DSC (1944) |
| Notes |
Commissioned Dec
36; transferred to FAA, Jul 1938; relinquished commission in
RAF on appointment to commission in RN, Aug 1938; died
Victoria BC, 3 Apr 75 |
| Name |
MASON, Anthony Cecil Carbery |
| Number |
18104 |
| Rank |
Pilot Officer |
| Nationality |
British |
| Born |
Bayswater, London,
6 February 1900 |
| Arrived |
11 June 1924 |
| Departed |
Unknown, early 1925
(still on Nominal Roll, 31 Dec 1924) |
| Notes |
Commissioned Nov
1923; killed in a flying accident with Armament & Gunnery
School (Eastchurch), at Leysdown, Isle of Sheppey, 8 Apr 1925 |
| Name |
MATHESON, Geoffrey Charles |
| Number |
39363 |
| Rank |
Pilot Officer |
| Nationality |
British |
| Born |
Bushey, Hertfordshire,
22 June 1912 |
| Arrived |
7 August 1937 |
| Departed |
19 March 1939 |
| Notes |
Commissioned Jan
1937; transferred to RAFO, Oct 1940; KIA during night intruder
to Orleans & Chateaudun, France, 24 Aug 1943; remembered
on Panel 118 of the Runnymede Memorial, Surrey |
| Name |
McAULEY, James Noel |
| Number |
29143 |
| Rank |
Pilot Officer, Flying
Officer |
| Nationality |
Irish |
| Born |
Donnybrook,
Dublin, Eire, 29 December 1907 |
| Arrived |
8 September 1931 |
| Departed |
15 November 1932 |
| Notes |
Commissioned Sep
1930; transferred to RAFO, Jun 1936; relinquished commission
at Flt Lt, Feb 1954, KIFA Karaj, Iran, 15 Mar 1963 |
| Name |
McCLURE, John Evelyn Crosland |
| Number |
28113 |
| Rank |
Flying Officer |
| Nationality |
British |
| Born |
Leicester, 4 May
1905 |
| Arrived |
16 March 1931 |
| Departed |
8 September 1933 |
| Notes |
Commissioned Aug
1929; resigned commission, Sep 1933; died Hampstead, Middlesex,
June 1962 |
| Name |
McDONALD, Arthur William Baynes |
| Number |
18219 |
| Rank |
Pilot Officer |
| Nationality |
British |
| Born |
Antigua, West Indies,
14 June 1903 |
| Arrived |
16 February 1925 |
| Departed |
30 June 1925 |
| Decorations |
AFC (1938); MiD
(1942, 1944, 1945, & 1945), KCB (1958) |
| Notes |
Commissioned Mar
1924; represented GB in solo sailing in 1948 London Olympics;
retired as Air Mshl, Apr 1962; died New Forest, Hampshire, 26
Jul 1996 |
| Name |
McDONALD, John Alexander
‘Mac’ |
| Number |
07222 |
| Rank |
Flight Lieutenant |
| Nationality |
British |
| Born |
Unknown location, Scotland, 29 August 1897 |
| Arrived |
18 January 1934 |
| Departed |
1 February 1935 |
| Decorations |
MiD (1945), CBE (1946), AFC (1947) |
| Notes |
Enlisted in RFC as Air Mechanic, 1915; commissioned
Technical Officer in RAF, 9 Sep 18; SSC as Fg Off, 12 Dec 19;
PC as Fg Off, 3 Jul 23; retired as Gp Capt, 14 Jan 47; died
Sway, Hampshire, 17 April 1983 |
| Name |
McEVOY, Theodore Neuman |
| Number |
16181 |
| Rank |
Pilot Officer, Flying
Officer |
| Nationality |
British |
| Born |
Cricklewood, 21
November 1904 |
| Arrived |
30 July 1925 |
| Departed |
6 October 1930 |
| Decorations |
MiD (1941), OBE
(1941), MiD (1945), CBE (1945), CB (1951), KCB (1956) |
| Notes |
Commissioned on
graduation from Cranwell, Jul 1925; retired as ACM, Nov 1962;
died Chichester, 28 Sep 1991 |
| Name |
McINTYRE, Richard Valentine |
| Number |
26143 |
| Rank |
Flight Lieutenant |
| Nationality |
British |
| Born |
Brandon, Durham,
3 October 1909 |
| Arrived |
26 October 1936 |
| Departed |
22 March 1937 |
| Decorations |
DFC (1943), Bar
to DFC (1944) |
| Notes |
Commissioned on
graduation from Cranwell, Dec 1929; retired as Gp Capt, Dec
1957; died Aiskew, Bedale, Yorks, 10 Mar 1991 |
| Name |
McKINNON, James Urquhart |
| Number |
17213 |
| Rank |
Flying Officer |
| Nationality |
British |
| Born |
Kilbirnie, Ayr,
Scotland, 5 April 1899 |
| Arrived |
21 July 1923 |
| Departed |
7 September 1924 |
| Notes |
Commissioned Nov
1917; Unemployed List, Jan 1919; Short Service Commission in
RAF, May 1923; relinquished commission, Sep 1925; commissioned
in RAF, Feb 1941; relinquished commission, Feb 1954, retaining
Sqn Ldr; died Paddington, London, 16 Dec 1966 |
| Name |
MEARES, Stanley Thomas |
| Number |
37683 |
| Rank |
PIlot Officer |
| Nationality |
British |
| Born |
Sidcup, Kent, 23
August 1916 |
| Arrived |
11 October 1936 |
| Departed |
3 January 1937 |
| Decorations |
DFC (1941) |
| Notes |
Commissioned Mar
1936; killed in mid-air collision 15 Nov 1941, aged 25; son
of Douglas H. & Minnie Meares of Ash Vale, Surrey, &
husband of Estevana E. Meares (nee Harcourt-Vernon); buried
in Grave 24.A.20 of Brookwood Military Cemetery, Surrey |
| Name |
MESSITER, Denis Arthur |
| Number |
28050 |
| Rank |
Pilot Officer, Flying
Officer |
| Nationality |
British |
| Born |
West Derby, Lancashire,
16 November 1910 |
| Arrived |
1 April 1930 |
| Departed |
23 October 1931 |
| Notes |
Commissioned Apr
1929; transferred to RAFO, Apr 1934; court-martialed Jul 1945;
died Worthing, Sussex, September 1997 |
| Name |
MIDWINTER, Charles |
| Number |
507611 |
| Rank |
Sergeant Pilot |
| Nationality |
British |
| Born |
Marsden Moor, Derbys,
16 October 1908 |
| Arrived |
1935 |
| Departed |
1935 |
| Decorations |
AFM (1941) |
| Notes |
Commissioned Fg
Off, Nov 1940; retired as Squadron Leader, Oct 1957; died Yorkshire
16 Dec 1984 |
| Name |
MITCHELL, Kenneth |
| Number |
740241 |
| Rank |
Sergeant Pilot |
| Nationality |
British |
| Born |
Christchurch, Hampshire,
July 1917 |
| Arrived |
1 June 1939 |
| Departed |
18 July 1939 |
| Notes |
Joined RAFVR, May
1937; pilot badge, 28 Nov 1938; killed in a flying accident,
Great Dun Fell, Pennines, 18 July 1939 |
| Name |
MONTGOMERY, Alexander Hutchinson |
| Number |
16157 |
| Rank |
Flight Lieutenant |
| Nationality |
British |
| Born |
Itchen Abbas, Hampshire,
18 June 1904 |
| Arrived |
22 September 1935 |
| Departed |
5 March 1936 |
| Decorations |
MBE (1934), MiD
(1943), CBE (1945) |
| Notes |
Commissioned on
graduation from Cranwell, Dec 1924; retired Feb 1946, retaining
Air Cdre; died Calgary, Alta, Canada, 12 Jan 1986 |
| Name |
MOORE, Charles Stuart |
| Number |
26185 |
| Rank |
Pilot Officer |
| Nationality |
British |
| Born |
Hampstead, 27 February
1910 |
| Arrived |
19 January 1931 |
| Departed |
29 April 1932 |
| Decorations |
OBE (1945), OBE
(1961), CB (1962) |
| Notes |
Commissined on graduation
from Cranwell, Dec 1930; retired Jul 1962, retaining AVM; died
Crowthorne, Bucks, 26 May 2005 |
| Name |
MORROGH-RYAN, Oliver Bertram 'Buck' |
| Number |
40970 |
| Rank |
Pilot Officer, Flying
Officer |
| Nationality |
British |
| Born |
Dunboyne Castle,
Meath, Ireland, 20 March 1919 |
| Arrived |
15 April 1939 |
| Departed |
18 December 1940 |
| Notes |
Commissioned Aug
1938; killed in a flying accident near Telford, Salop, with
68 Sqn, 26 July 1941; son Leonard & Laura Morrogh-Ryan, &
husband of Marguerite Morrogh-Ryan of Brettanby Manor; buried
in Grave 26 of the Lower Plot of St. Cuthbert Churchyard, Barton,
Yorkshire |
| Name |
MOUATT, Laurence Rayson |
| Number |
28159 |
| Rank |
Pilot Officer, Flying
Officer |
| Nationality |
British |
| Born |
North Leith, Edinburgh,
Scotland, 21 June 1909 |
| Arrived |
9 September 1930 |
| Departed |
26 October 1931 |
| Decorations |
MiD (1945) |
| Notes |
Commissioned Sep
1929; transferred to RAFO, Sep 1934; re com as Sqn Ldr, Jun
1954; died Bornemouth, Dorset, 2 June 1991 |
| Name |
MULLALY, Hugh Alexander |
| Number |
18088 |
| Rank |
Pilot Officer |
| Nationality |
British |
| Born |
Bengal, India, 11
March 1899 |
| Arrived |
11 June 1924 |
| Departed |
26 January 1925 |
| Notes |
Commissioned in
Indian Army, Dec 1917; retired, Nov 1922; commissioned in RAF,
Nov 1923; court-martialled, cashiered under Section 40 &
discharged, 26 Jan 1925, for scandalous conduct committed at
Northolt, 15 Nov 1924; died Southampton, 1971 |
| Name |
MURLIS-GREEN, Gilbert Ware |
| Number |
01161 |
| Rank |
Squadron Leader |
| Nationality |
British |
| Born |
Lambeth, 24 January
1895 |
| Arrived |
15 April 1924 |
| Departed |
7 February 1926 |
| Decorations |
MiD (1916), MC (1917),
1st Bar to MC (1917), French Coix de Guerre (1917), DSO (1917),
Serbian OWE, 4th Class with Swords (1917), MiD (1917), Bar to
DSO (1917), MiD (1917), Second Bar to MC (1918), French Knight
of the Legion of Honour (1918), Belgian Croix de Guerre (1919) |
| Notes |
Commissioned in
Army, 1914; seconded to RFC, 1915; commissioned Sqn Ldr in RAF,
Apr 1918; OC, 41 Sqn, 15 Apr 1924-7 Feb 1926; retired Mar 1942,
retaining Gp Capt; emigrated to Kenya, 1944; died Kitale, Kenya,
26 Aug 1958 |
| Name |
MUTCH, John |
| Number |
26061 |
| Rank |
Pilot Officer |
| Nationality |
British |
| Born |
Dinnet, Aberdeen,
Scotland, 13 March 1907 |
| Arrived |
28 July 1928 |
| Departed |
17 December 1929 |
| Decorations |
CB (1946), CBE (1949) |
| Notes |
Aircraft Apprentice
1923-26; Flight Cadetship 1926-27; commissioned Jul 1928; retired
as Air Cdre, Oct 1958; died Longniddry, Scotland, 15 Jan 2000 |
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