On April 16, 1940 while 801 and 803 squadrons were providing escort cover for HMS Suffolk, Bill (serving on 801 Squadron) scored his first kill when he helped down a Do 18 flown by Ltn zur See Keil. Two days earlier 801 Skuas from Hatston had carried out raids in the Bergen area and sank transport Brenfels. In preparation for …
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To be, or not to be: Bill’s Battle of Britain clasp
In 2013 I visited the Battle of Britain memorial on the Thames in London. Excitedly I looked for my grandfathers name, but never found it. I wondered if they had mixed up his four names and looked for him under different surnames. But no. I looked online, everywhere that has lists of names of those that are among ‘the few’, …