Ian Forbes DAVIES
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- Ian Forbes DAVIES. Flying Officer 76384 Royal Air Force (VR), 8 Maintenance Unit, aged 23. Born 1918 to William and Alice Dryden Davies, of 126 Stockwell Road, Lambeth, London. He had worked as an experimental engineer before being called up for service. He was flying with Flying Officer, Pilot Reginald Trevor Shaw in a Proctor I P6274. Both were killed a flying accident when the plane crashed at Hillcot Wood, Andover, Hampshire. accident 23 October 1940 aged 23. At rest in St Peter Churchyard, Little Rissington, Gloucestershire.
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He had married Anna Brunnsteiner in 1939 in Bourton-on-the-Water and had lived there whilst serving as a sergeant pilot at RAF Little Rissington. He had been commissioned in May 1940.
Both killed when their Percival Proctor P6274 flew into the ground in bad visibility at Hillcot Wood, Andoversford at 1730.
