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29-08-2008, 08:14 PM
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You're Top Poster: #8   | One of the "Few" RIP young Keith ! GILLMAN, KEITH REGINALD. 42053. Pilot Officer, Royal Air Force. 32 Sqdn. Died: 25/08/1940. Age 19. Son of Richard Gordon Gillman and Gladys Annie Gillman, of River, Dover, Kent. Memorial: Runnymede Memorial. Panel 8. Pilot Officer, Keith Reginald Gillman was one of the "Few" A Battle of Britain Fighter Pilot, who failed to return from combat over the Channel off Dover and at 19.00 hours was reported missing. He was flying a Hawker Hurricane No N2433. Born in Dover on: Dec 16th 1920 he was educated at Dover County School from 1933 to 1938 and took the London University School Certificate. During the Battle of Britain he served at Hawkinge Airfield Kent, the closest Airfield to occupied France, and was credited his first victory on July 19th 1940, a ME 109 Fighter. Hawkinge |
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30-08-2008, 02:13 AM
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I meant to post on his anniversary really but the days went by me too fast !!  He was just a baby .... pulls on my heart strings ! Annie | |
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30-08-2008, 04:15 PM
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You're Top Poster: #3  | Heroes at 19. What would we have done without them?
__________________ Spidge, ------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war." (Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.) What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site: http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm |
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