Notes
All additional information and this short biography are supplied thanks to the research of the Blackpool Grammar School Old Boys: 'He came from Burnley to the Grammar School in 1936, until 1939, the son of James E Whitaker of Reads Avenue. He trained as an accountant before becoming a Sergeant Pilot in the RAF (No 1673071) with No 42 Squadron in the Far East, and was killed on Saturday 21st October 1944, aged 21, flying a Hurricane IV out of Tulihal. He is buried in Taukkyan War Cemetery in Burma.'