Ferrier, John Anning, son of Evan Tadman Ferrier, of Cardiff; b. April 20, 1883; adm. Jan. 20, 1898 (G); left July 1898.
Fevez, David Gronow Eugene, son of Eugene Leon Fevez of Esher and his second wife Ethel Gronow, d. of Frederick William Oliver (qv); half brother of Derek John Fevez (qv); b. 12 Jan. 1919; adm. Sept. 1932 (G); left July 1936; PO RAF, killed in action over France June 1940.
David Gronow Eugene Fevez was born at “Eversleigh”, Addlestone, Chertsey, Surrey on the 12th of January 1919 the elder son of Eugene Leon Fevez OW, a director of a wholesale textile company, and his second wife, Ethel Gronow (nee Oliver) Fevez of “Eversleigh”, Addlestone, Chertsey, later of 24, Woodville Road, Bexhill-on-Sea in Sussex. He was educated at Westminster School where he was up Grant’s’ from September 1932 to July 1936. He attended the Flying School at Gatwick airfield on the 8th of August 1939 and was commissioned as an Acting Pilot Officer on probation in the Royal Air Force on the 9th of October 1939. He was posted to No. 3 Initial Training Wing at Hastings, Kent on the 9th of October 1939 for pilot training and to No. 3 Service Flying Training School at RAF South Cerney on the 21st of October 1939. He was promoted to Pilot Officer on probation on the 28th of April 1940 and was posted to No. 1 School of Air Cooperation on the same day. He was posted to 26 Squadron on the 29th of May 1940, who had been based at Authie airfield in France before moving to RAF Lympne on the 20th of May 1940.
David Fevez and his Observer/Air Gunner, Sergeant Robert Donald Keiler Cochrane, took off from Boos near Rouen on the morning of 5th of June 1940 in Lysander Mk II N1211 for a reconnaissance of the Somme area. The aircraft was flying to the south west of Abbeville when it was attacked and shot down by Hauptmann Muller of 4./JG3. The aircraft crashed near Ercourt at 12.10pm killing both men.
His mother received the following telegram dated the 6th of June 1940: - “Regret to inform you that your son Pilot Officer David Gronow Fevez is reported missing as the result of air operations on 5th June 1940. Letter follows. Any further information received will be immediately communicated to you. Should information reach you from any source please inform this department.”
One of the bodies of the crew was found by the Germans close to the wreckage of the aircraft and was buried at the crash site. Two months later another body was found in a wood some 200 yards from the crash site and was wearing an unopened parachute. He was buried with his comrade. In 1941 some locals moved them to the village cemetery and marked them both as unknown airmen. In 1946 No. 1 Missing Research and Enquiry Unit, Royal Air Force exhumed the bodies, identified them and reburied them at the same location.
His brother, Captain Robin Louis Gronow Fevez OW, 2/5th Battalion, The Queen’s Royal Regiment (West Surrey) was killed in action on the 10th of September 1943.
He is buried at Ercourt Churchyard Cemetery, France.
Fevez, Derek John, son of Eugene Leon Fevez, of Esher, Surrey, by his first wife, Angela, daughter of Edward C. Quin, of Dublin, and nephew of Louis Auguste Marie Fevez (q.v.); b. Aug. 28, 1903; adm. Sept. 26, 1918 (G); left July 1920; Pilot Officer (A. and S. D.) R.A.F.V.R. Dec. 19, 1941; Flight-Lieut.; m. Sept. 2, 1933, Cecily, daughter of Capt. Robert Rivett Carnac, Rifle Brigade; d. 18 Nov. 1970.
FISHER, CECIL EDWARD, fifth son of Rev. William Fisher, Rector of Poulshot, Wilts., and Prebendary and Canon Residentiary of Salisbury, and his first wife Elizabeth, dau. of Rev. William Cookson DD, Canon of Windsor; b. 12 Aug 1838; adm. (G) 28 Jun 1851; QS (Capt. ) 1853; Capt. of the School 1856; spoke the Prologue to the Andria in 1856, when the scenes presented by William Carey (qv) were used for the last time; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1857, matr. 4 Jun 1857, Westminster Student to 1862; BA 1861; MA 1878; ordained deacon (Oxford) 1862, priest (Salisbury) 1863; Curate, Bremhill, Wilts., 1864; Rector of Stoke Rochford, Lincs., 1865-78; Prebendary of Lincoln from 1877; Vicar of Grantham, Lincs., 1878-83; Rector of Hagworthingham, Lincs., 1883-90; Vicar of St. Peter’s, Bournemouth, Hants., 1890-1904; m. 13 Nov 1862 his cousin Agnes, youngest dau. of John Mirehouse, Brownslade, Pembs., Common Serjeant of London; d. 13 Jan 1925.
Fisher, Stefani Melton, brother of Frederick Melton Fisher (q.v.); b. Aug. 10, 1894; adm. Sept. 24, 1908 (G); left Easter 1911; d. March 2, 1963.
Johnstone, Gerald Ewart, son of Rev. David Ewart Johnstone and Alice Mary, d. of Rt Rev. John Martindale Speechly DD, Bishop of Travancore and Cochin; b. 26 June 1906; adm. Sept. 1920 (G); left July 1925; Ch. Ch. Oxf., matric. 1925, BA 1928, BCL 1929; called to the Bar (Gray's Inn) Jan. 1930; legal branch Min. of Agriculture 1935; Treasury Solicitor's Office 1936, Legal Asst 1937, sen. Legal Asst 1946, principal Legal Asst 1956; legal adviser Min. of Economic Warfare 1939-46, Min. of Food 1954; CB 1959; m. 27 Aug. 1935 Dorothy Gladys, d. of Thomas Stoneof Exeter; d. 23 Mar. 1973.
Keily, Philip Barnard, brother of Gerald Barnard Keily (qv); b. 1 May 1909; adm. May 1922 (G); left Dec. 1922; 2nd Lieut. IA Jan. 1929; Lieut. Bombay Pioneers Mar. 1931; Capt. 9 Gurkha Rifles Jan. 1938; seconded South Waziristan Scouts July 1939; temp. Maj. Feb. 1943, Maj. and temp. Lieut.-Col. June 1944; served NW Frontier 1939-43, India and Burma 1943-5; retd as hon. Lieut.-Col. Dec. 1947; m. 7 Feb. 1948 Joan Olive, d. of John Staines of Bombay; d. 1963.
Kellie, Kenneth Harrison Alloa, youngest son of George Kelly, of Shanklin, Isle of Wight, printer and publisher, by Julia Rosina, daughter of Francis Watts, of Pimlico; b. July 28, 1874; adm. Jan. 18, 1888 (G); left July 1893; Caius Coll. Camb. (adm. pensr. Oct. 2, 1893); B.A. 1898, M.A. and B.C. 1904; M.B. 1905; St. George's Hospital; M.R.C.S. and L.R.C.P. 1903; M.R.C.P. 1908; Physician to the Belgrave Hospital for Children 1912; practised in Queen Anne Street, Cavendish Square; assumed the surname of Kellie in lieu of Kelly; Lieut. R.A.M.C. April 1, 1915; Capt. April 1, 1916; went out to the western front May 15, 1915; was first attached to the Guards' Brigade, but was subsequently transferred to the Canadian contingent as Second Senior Medical Officer; m. Constance Hamley, of Chester; killed in action near Albert, France, June 25, 1916.
Kemp, Athole Stephen Horsford, son of Sir Joseph Horsford Kemp KBE KC LLD, Chief Justice of Hong Kong, and Mary, d. of Peter Stuart; b. 21 Oct. 1917; adm. Sept. 1930 (G); left July 1936; Ch. Ch. Oxf., matric. 1936, BA 1941, MA 1943; commissioned RA 1939, seconded Malayan Civil Service 1940; p.o.w. Singapore, Thailand-Burma Railway 1942-5; Malayan Civil Service 1946-64, dep. Perm. Sec. to the Malaysian Cabinet 1957-64; MBE 1951, OBE 1958; Secretary General Royal Commonwealth Society 1967-83; LVO 1983; m. 3 Aug. 1940 Marjorie Alison Bostock, lecturer and teacher, d. of Geoffrey Rowley Bostock, chartered accountant; d. 30 Mar. 1995.
Kennedy, Samuel Patrick Lithgow, son of Samuel David Kennedy (qv); b. 20 Apr. 1926; adm. Sept. 1939 (G); left Apr. 1944; Trin. Coll. Camb., elected 1944, matric. 1947, BA 1949, MA 1983; an actuary, AIA 1952, FIA 1954; Sun Alliance and Lond. Assurance 1965, asst. gen. man. 1971; dir. Securitas-Gilde Lebensversicherung AG 1979, dep. chmn. 1982-6; visiting Prof. in Actuarial Science City Univ. 1985, dir. Centre for Insurance & Investment 1985-8; Vice-Pres. Inst. of Actuaries 1982-5; dep. sec. -gen. Geneva Assn. 1987-; retd.; m. 20 Apr. 1957 Caris Mary, d. of Edward Parry Evans, solicitor, of Pinner, Middlesex; d. 20 Aug. 2015.