The Pilots of 41 Squadron RAF,
1923-1939
Surnames W
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| Name |
WALLACE, Gerard Euan |
| Number |
33179 |
| Rank |
Pilot Officer, Flying
officer, Flight
Lieutenant |
| Nationality |
British |
| Born |
St. George
Hanover Square, London, 23 October 1915 |
| Arrived |
27 July 1935 |
| Departed |
ca July 1939 |
| Notes |
Commissioned on graduation
from Cranwell, Jul 1935; failed to return, presumed dead,
as Wg Cdr and OC 209 Sqn, 20 Aug 1943; remembered
on Column 267, Alamein Memorial, Egypt |
|
Name |
WALLENS, Ronald Walter 'Wally' |
| Number |
70708 |
| Rank |
Pilot Officer, Flying
officer |
| Nationality |
British |
| Born |
Amblecote, Stourbridge,
Worcestershire, 1 February 1916 |
| Term 1 |
26 March-8 August
1938 |
| Term 2 |
7 October 1938-5
September 1940 |
| Decorations |
DFC (1944) |
| Notes |
Commissioned, Aug
1937; shot down & seriously WIA, 5 Sep 1940, &
hospitalised until Apr 1941; flying status re-instated 1943
& posted to ASR duties; died Stratford-on-Avon, 13 Nov 1995 |
| Name |
WEBSTER, John Terence 'Terry' |
| Number |
37436 |
| Rank |
Pilot Officer, Flying
Officer, Flight Lieutenant |
| Nationality |
British |
| Born |
Liverpool, 20 March
1916 |
| Arrived |
11 April 1938 |
| Departed |
5 September 1940 |
| Decorations |
DFC (1940) |
| Notes |
Commissioned Aug
1935; KIFA during combat in mid-air collision with Flt Lt R. E. Lovett of
73 Sqn, 5 Sep 1940; remembered on Panel 4 of the Darlington
Memorial in Durham |
| Name |
WHEELER, Allen Henry |
| Number |
05109 |
| Rank |
Flight Lieutenant |
| Nationality |
British |
| Born |
27 September 1903 |
| Arrived |
30 September
1933 (att 8 Sqn, Aden, 18 Sep-1 Nov 1935) |
| Departed |
7 August 1936 |
| Decorations |
MiD (1941),
OBE (1945) |
| Notes |
Commissioned Jan
1924; retired as Air Cdre, May 1955; employed as aviation
consultant to film industry, incl 'The Blue Max' and 'Those
Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines'; died Whistley
Bridge, Berkshire, 1 Jan 1984 |
| Name |
WICKHAM, Peter Reginald Whalley |
| Number |
33403 |
| Rank |
Pilot Officer |
| Nationality |
British |
| Born |
Nairobi, Kenya,
26 March 1918 |
| Arrived |
17 December 1938 |
| Departed |
16 May 1939 |
| Decorations |
DFC (1942), DSO
(1945), U.S. Silver Star (1946) |
| Notes |
Commissioned on graduation from
Cranwell, Dec 1938; retired Mar 1961, retaining
Gp Capt; died 29 April 1970 |
| Name |
WILSON, Hugh Patrick |
| Number |
27036 |
| Rank |
Pilot Officer,
Flying Officer |
| Nationality |
British |
| Born |
Lisburn,
Northern Ireland, 29 May 1908 |
| Arrived |
1 September 1928 |
| Departed |
20 February 1931 |
| Notes |
Commissioned Dec
1926;
transferred to RAFO, Apr 1933; court-martialed & dismissed
for scandalous conduct, Apr 1941; died Chelmsford, Essex,
8 May 1971 |
WILSON-MacDONALD, Duncan Stuart,
see MacDONALD, Duncan Stuart
| Name |
WOODHALL, Alfred
Basil ‘Woody’ |
| Number |
05176 |
| Rank |
Flight
Lieutenant |
| Nationality |
British |
| Born |
Laburnun Cottage,
Kirkby-in-Furness, 9 January 1897 |
| Arrived |
22 September 1935 |
| Departed |
27 November 1935 |
| Decorations |
Czech Military Cross (1941), OBE
(1941), U.S. Legion of Merit (1945) |
| Notes |
Commissioned in
Army, Jun 1916; permanent commission in Royal Marines, May
1918; commissioned in RAF, Jan 1925; permanent commission
in RAF, Aug 1930; retired Jul 1945, retaining Gp Capt; died Dunedin, New Zealand, 11 Jun
1968 |
| Name |
WRIGHT, Ernest James
Henry 'Jim' |
| Number |
Unknown |
| Rank |
Flying Officer |
| Nationality |
British |
| Born |
Paddington,
London, 4 October 1899 |
| Arrived |
14 May 1923 |
| Departed |
9 July 1925 |
| Decorations |
MBE (1944) |
| Notes |
Commissioned Nov
1922; transferred to RAFO, Nov 1927; relinquished commission on cessation of service, Nov 1935;
commissioned in Training Branch, Apr 1941, & employed as
cameraman with USAAF & US Army in UK, North Africa, Italy &
Far East, 1942-45; died Shepperton, MIddlesex, 7 January
1983 |
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