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John de
Havilland was 25, single, and lived at Bushey Heath. As soon as he was old enough to do so he followed the examples of his father and two brothers, Geoffrey and Peter, and qualified as a pilot. He entered the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve some time before the outbreak of war, and was a
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Havilland Scholarship Fund, in memory of Sir Geoffrey and Lady de Havilland's third son (killed in a flying accident in 1943), has been administered by the SBAC since 1948. Until last year, it was used to give financial help to boys wishing to take up an apprenticeship in the aircraft
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Mosquito Mark VI flown by pilot George Gibbins. Both aircraft disintegrated in the air, killing all four occupants aboard. Godfrey J. Carter was flying as an observer in Gibbins's aircraft.
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sergeant-pilot. He was mobilised immediately hostilities opened, and joined his unit. Subsequently, when the de
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