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Note: Born at 9 Colville Mansions,Kensington,London.Educated at Temple Grove Prep school and Oundle,Northants.Volunteered for the RAF as a Wireless Operator/Air Gunner in 1942 and flew on 28 bombing raids w> ith 115 Sqd at Witchford.Received a Commission during this period.Later went to India and served in the crew of General Auchinleck's personal DC3.Demobbed in 1946 and after obtaining a Commercial Wire>
less Operator's Certificate he worked for Eagle Aviation and was heavily involved in the Berlin Airlift.He married Joyce Henley in 1951 and later began drinking heavily.They were divorced in 1957.Pete>
r then took various odd jobs as a lorry driver and barman at his Mother's pub He received treatment as an alcholic and died in 1965 in an accident when a gas fire was left on but unlit.The Coroner dec>
lared it to be an accident however,there is the possibilty of suicide
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