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GB-2014-WSA-04356 · Person · 1896-?

Calvert, Albert Cyril Holcombe, son of Albert Frederick Calvert, of Hampstead, by Florence, daughter of Joseph Francis Holcombe, of Kentish Town, b. June 24, 1896; adm. Sept. 28, 1911 (G); left Easter 1915; 2nd Lieut. York and Lancaster Regt. Oct. 10, 1915; served in Egypt, France, Flanders, Italy, and Fiume 1915-9; wounded; Capt. and Adjt. 8th Batt. Oct. 23, 1917; Adjt. May 21, 1918; M.C. Jan. 1, 1919, and Italian Croce de Guerra; a private secretary.

GB-2014-WSA-04361 · Person · 1899-?

Calvert, Leonard Edward Lawrence, brother of Albert Cyril Holcombe Calvert (q.v.); b. Oct. 27, 1899; adm. Sept. 25, 1913 (G); left Dec. 1917; a clerk in the Bank of England; m. July 26, 1930, Phyllis Mary, daughter of Alfred George Newnham, bank official, of Northwood, Middlesex.

GB-2014-WSA-04362 · Person · 1907-1963

Calvert, Paul John, brother of Albert Cyril Holcombe Calvert (qv); b. 31 Aug. 1907; adm. Sept. 1921 (G); left Dec. 1923; Faraday House, AMIEE 1942, AMIMechE 1947; Admiralty Scientific Res. Dept in WW2; m. 7 Aug. 1937 Winifred Jessie, d. of Lieut.-Cdr Joseph Benjamin Somerville RN; d. 18 Oct. 1963.

GB-2014-WSA-04365 · Person · 1907-1953

Calvert, Roderick Frank, brother of Albert Cyril Holcombe Calvert (qv); b. 31 Aug. 1907; adm. Sept. 1921 (G); left Dec. 1923; a bulb grower in Cornwall; man. of dehydration factories, Min. of Food, in WW2; m. 1 Aug. 1942 Sarah Elizabeth, d. of James Dickenson Smith of Durham; d. 18 Nov. 1953.

GB-2014-WSA-04367 · Person · 1921-1941

Calway, Frank Ferguson, son of Frank Hugh Ferguson Calway, silk throwster, of Duddlestone, Somerset, and Susan Dorothy, d. of Joseph B. Harcombe of Cape Town; b. 3 Feb. 1921; adm. Sept. 1934 (B); left July 1939; RN (Ord. Seaman); d. on active service 31 Aug. 1941.

Frank Ferguson Calway was born at Taunton, Somerset on the 3rd of February 1921 the only son of Frank Hugh Ferguson Calway, director of a silk mill, and Susie Dorothy (nee Harcombe) Calway of “Quoits Field”, Duddlestone in Somerset. He was educated at Westminster School where he was up Busby’s from September 1934 to July 1939. He was a member of the 1st Cricket XI from 1937 to 1939 and was Captain in the latter year. He was a member of the 1st Football XI in 1938 and 1939, where he played as goalkeeper. He was a member of the Officer Training Corps, where he was promoted to Lance Corporal in September 1937 and later rose to the rank of Sergeant. He was appointed as Head of House in 1938 and was amember of the Debating Society where he was elected as President in 1938.
On leaving school he travelled to Canada on the 5th of August 1939 where he played cricket for a public schools side but following the outbreak of war, he returned home on board the SS Duchess of Atholl, landing at Liverpool on the 6th of October 1939. On his return he joined his father’s firm for a period of nine months and was one of the first members of the Corfe Home Guard. He played for the Taunton Cricket Club in 1940 and for the Y.M.C.A Football XI in 1939. He enlisted in the Royal Navy and was posted to HMS Quebec, the naval training establishment at Inverary in Argyll. He contracted a pulmonary abscess and died from pneumonia at Drymen Hill Hospital near Loch Lomond.
His funeral took place on the 4th of September 1941 in a service conducted by the Reverend T.L.T. Fisher. A guard of honour was provided by the Corfe Home Guard.
He is commemorated on the war memorial at Corfe.
He is buried at St Nicholas’ Church, Corfe Grave 369.

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GB-2014-WSA-04368 · Person · fl. 1554

CALYCE, ---; b.; adm.; QS 1553-4.

GB-2014-WSA-04369 · Person · 1907-1998

Cambell, Denis Royle Farquharson, son of Archibald Cambell MB, of Southsea, Hants, and Edith, d. of Arthur Farquharson Roberts of Bedford; b. 13 Nov. 1907; adm. Sept. 1921 (R); left July 1925; Midshipman RN Sept. 1926, Lieut. Dec. 1930, Lieut.-Cdr Dec. 1938, Cdr Dec. 1942, Capt. Dec. 1948; commanded HMS Ark Royal 1955-6; Dir. of Air Warfare, Admiralty, 1957; inventor of angled flight deck for aircraft-carriers; Rear-Adm 1958; DSC 1940, Legion of Merit (US) 1958, CB 1960; retd 1960; m. 12 Aug. 1933 Dorothy Elinor, d. of Allan John Downes, of Lee-on-Solent, Hants.; d. 30 Jun. 1998.

GB-2014-WSA-04370 · Person · 1920-1995

Cameron, Donald George, son of Donald Cameron, architect, of Ealing , and Agnes Constable, d. of Hugh Peacock of Glasgow; b. 7 Apr. 1920; adm. Sept. 1933 (A); left July 1937; King's Coll. Lond., BSc (1st class hons) 1944; a civil engineer, AMICE 1949, FICE 1964, FCIArb 1970; Rendel Palmer & Tritton 1952-80, consult. engineer 1970-80; m. 24 Mar. 1955 Diane Margue­rite Haywood; d. 29 Mar. 1995

GB-2014-WSA-04372 · Person · 1916-1940

Cameron, Frederick John Alistair; b. 15 Oct. 1916; adm. Jan. 1931 (G); left Apr. 1931; PO RAFVR Apr. 1940; d. 19 August 1940.

Frederick John Alastair “Freddy” Cameron was born in London on the 15th of October 1916 the only son of Alastair Cameron and Mary Addison (nee Pudney) Cameron of 2, John Street, Mayfair in London, later of Bourne End in Buckinghamshire. He was educated at Westminster School where he was up Grant’s from January 1931 to April 1931. He worked for Phillips & Powis Aircraft Ltd of Reading and gained a Royal Aero Club Certificate (No. 11499) at Phillips & Powis on the 1st of May 1933 while flying a DH Moth. He was married to Helen (nee Curtiss) (before 1939) and they lived at “Wayside”, High Street, Weston-Super-Mare.
He enlisted in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve where he trained as a pilot and rose to the rank of Sergeant. He was serving as a pilot with No. 5 Air Observer Navigation School, based at Weston Airport, Weston-Super-Mare in 1939 and was lodging at Quarry Close, Winscombe in Somerset. He was commissioned as a Pilot Officer on the 1st of April 1940.
Freddy Cameron and his crew took off on the 19th of August 1940 in Anson Mk I N5132 for a navigational training exercise. At the time he had accumulated 2,634.50 hours of total solo flying time on all aircraft types of which 439.50 were on Anson aircraft. During the flight the starboard engine failed and Frederick Cameron attempted to make a forced landing at Littleton Lane, Wellow, some three miles to the south of Bath. As it came in to land the aircraft hit a tree which ripped off the starboard wing and caused it to swing into some trees and tip headfirst into a stream. It turned over onto its back with the tail plane resting on a tree. All but two of the men on board were killed.
The crew was: -
Pilot Officer Frederick John Alastair Cameron (Pilot)
Leading Aircraftman Raymond Thomas Howard (Observer Under Training)
Leading Aircraftman Joseph Asquith Hodgson (Observer Under Training)
Leading Aircraftman William Henry Howard (Observer Under Training)
Leading Aircraftman Ian Macinnes (Seriously injured)
Mr H. P. Wigg (Civilian Wireless Operator) (Seriously injured)
The injured were admitted to Bath Royal United Hospital later in the day.
His wife received the following letter dated the 21st of August 1940: - “Madam, I am commanded by the Air Council to express to you their great regret on learning that your husband, Pilot Officer Frederick John Alastair Cameron, Royal Air Force, lost his life as the result of an aircraft accident near Wellow, Bath on 19th of August, 1940. The Air Council desire me to convey their profound sympathy with you in your bereavement.”
He is buried at the Church of St Mary the Less, Chilbolton.

GB-2014-WSA-04374 · Person · 1864-1942

CAMM, REGINALD PERCY JOHN (afterwards CAMM, REGINALD BEDE), eldest son of Rev. John Brooke Maher Camm, Rector of Monkton Wyld, Dorset, and formerly Cornet, 12th Lancers, and Caroline, dau. of Richard Edward Arden, Sunbury Park, Middlesex; b. 26 Dec 1864; adm. (H) 26 Jan 1881; left Aug 1883; Keble Coll. Oxford, matr. 16 Oct 1883; BA 1887; MA Cambridge (from Christ’s Coll. ) 1920; ordained deacon 1888 (Rochester); Curate, St. Agnes, Kennington, Surrey 1888-90; received into Roman Catholic church 1890; clothed with Benedictine habit at Maredsons, Belgium, 1890, and professed 1891; St. Anselm’s Coll., Rome; ordained 1895; stationed at Erdington, Warwicks., 1895-1912; novice master, Caldey Abbey 1913; affiliated to St. Gregory’s Abbey, Downside, 1913; Chaplain to Forces (4th class) 1915-9, serving in Egypt; Master of Downside House of Studies, Cambridge, 1919-31; FSA 1 Jun 1922; author, The Lives of the Blessed English Martyrs, 1904-5, and other works; d. unm. 8 Sep 1942.