Notes
Hornshaw and Fowler provide the extra details. The son of a Captain in the Royal Horse Artillery, he was an athlete who competed for Halifax Harriers as well as working for the Building Society. He had learned to fly privately at Yeadon, near Leeds, before enlisting in May 1940 and being commissioned in November 1941. He died serving with Coastal Command., his body being cremated. He is also commemorated in the cemetery at Salterhebble in Halifax.