This panel is from the Gamon window in the cloisters in Chester Cathedral
Captain, Sydney Percival GAMON, 5th Cheshire Regiment attached to the Royal Flying Corps, who was killed whilst engaged in the aerial defence of London 23rd March 1918 aged 23.He was the son of John Percival (Solicitor and Notary)and Margaret Alice nee Geddes of Leighton Banastre, Parkgate, Cheshire He is buried in Neston Cemetery, Cheshire
His death was registered at Hornchurch, Essex.
Further information found, He was killed whilst conducting aerobatics in Camel C6726 whilst serving with 78 Squadron, Royal Flying Corps. He was station at Sutton's Farm Areodrome, in Hornchurch, Essex.
Captain Sydney Percival GAMON, Cheshire Regiment and R.F.C., who was killed accidentally while, flying on March 23rd, was the eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Gamon, of Leighton Banastre, Parkgate, Cheshire, and was 23 years old. He was educated at St. Fillan's Heswall, The Leas, Hoylake, and Uppingham School. An application for entrance into the R.N.A.S. which he made in August, 1914, was refused, as he then held a commission in a Territorial Force as officer commanding the machine-gun section. This section was chiefly manned by men from the Chester Hydraulic Engineering Company, with whom he was completing a course of engineering, and he went to the front with his regiment in February, 1915 remaining with them there till May, 1916, and having during that time gained the permanent rank of captain. He then obtained leave to join the R.F.C., and was acting as observer in France from May to November, 1916, when he returned to England to take his pilot's course. Obtaining his wings early in 1917, he had since been engaged in the aerial defence of London. (Source, Flight Archive)
Fatal Accident Source, Flight Archive
WHILE flying in South Essex on March 23rd 1934 Captain Sydney Percival Gamon, Cheshires and R.F.C., was killed. At the inquest a verdict of Accidental Death was returned.
