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Plaistowe, Ralph Cuthbert, son of Cuthbert Plaistowe of Ealing and Christine Lilian, d. of Ralph Callard of Ealing; b. 6 Dec. 1911; adm. Sept. 1925 (H); left July 1930; Queens' Coll. Camb., matric. 1930, BA 1933; a chartered accountant, ACA 1937; practised in London and Leamington Spa; Sgt RAFVR, killed in action 1 Sep. 1941.

Ralph Cuthbert Plaistowe was born at Ealing, Middlesex on the 6th of December 1911 the elder son of Cuthbert Plaistowe, managing director of a fruit preserve and confectionary manufacturer, and Christine Lilian (nee Callard) Plaistowe of “Mansfield”, Elgin Road, Weybridge in Surrey. He was educated at Westminster School where he was up Homeboarders from September 1925 to July 1930. He matriculated for Queens’ College, Cambridge in 1930 where he graduated with a BA in 1933. He went to work as a chartered accountant and qualified ACA in 1937. He practiced in London and at Leamington Spa. He was awarded a Royal Aero Club Certificate (No. 16362) at Brooklands Flying Club on the 1st of October 1938 while flying a Tiger Moth aircraft. He enlisted in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve where he trained as a pilot and rose to the rank of Flight Sergeant.
On the 1st of September 1941 Bomber Command dispatched 34 Wellingtons and 20 Hampdens for an operation on Cologne. The weather was clear and returning crews reported that they saw a number of fires on the ground but many of these were German decoy fires. The German authorities reported that one house was damaged in the city and that there were no casualties on the ground.
Ralph Plaistowe and his crew took off from RAF Scampton at 8.13pm on the 1st of September 1941 in Hampden Mk I AE187 OL-L for the operation. They crossed the English coast at Orfordness. The aircraft was shot down by an enemy night fighter flown by Oberleutnant Wilhem “Willi” Dimter of 3./NJG1 and crashed at Deurne, Noord Brabant, 9 kilometres to the east south east of Helmond in Holland at 11.47pm with the loss of the entire crew. Theirs was the fourth victory of an eventual eight victories for Willi Dimter before he was killed in action on the 7th of September 1942.
The crew was: -
Sergeant James Hughes (Wireless Operator)
Sergeant Adrian John Somerville-Woodiwis (Navigator)
Sergeant Ralph Cuthbert Plaistowe (Pilot)
Sergeant Robert Buist Scott (Air Gunner)
Theirs was the only aircraft which failed to return from the raid.
The crew was buried at the Military Cemetery, Eindhoven on the 2nd of September 1941. Their bodies were exhumed for identification purposes and were reburied on the 23rd of April 1947.
He is commemorated on the war memorial at Queens’ College, Cambridge and on the 1939-1945 Roll of Honour of Members of the Institute of Chartered Accountants and Articled Clerks.
He is buried at Woensel General Cemetery, Eindhoven Plot JJ, Grave 35.

Pixell, Henry Randolph Prynne, son of the Rev. Charles Henry Vincent Pixell, Vicar of St. Faith's, Stoke Newington, Middlesex, by Edith Mary, daughter of the Rev. Alfred Wilson, Rector of East Farndon, Northants; b. Nov. 16, 1870; adm. April 29, 1886 (H); left April 1888; an engineer; m. Aug. 6, 1892, Mabel Irene Charity, daughter of Thomas Howden, of Stoke Newington.

Pite, Robert William, son of William Alfred Pite, F.R.I.B.A., of Ealing, by Ethel Clara, second daughter of Septimus William Sibley, F.R.C.S., of London; b. Sept. 5, 1893; adm. Sept. 26, 1907 (H); left July 1910; Royal Coll. of Art, South Kensington; enlisted in the R.E. Sept. 4, 1914; severely wounded in the Dardanelles Aug. 7, 1915; 2nd Lieut. R.E. July 7, 1916; demob. Sept. 1919; served in Mesopotamia 1918 and the Afghan War 1919; mentioned in despatches L.G. June 3, 1919; an architect; A.R.I.B.A. 1921; F.R.I.B.A. 1928; Pilot Officer (A. and S.D.) R.A.F.V.R. Oct. 4, 1940; Flying Officer Oct. 4, 1941; Temp. Flight-Lieut. Aug. 12, 1942; Sqdn. Ldr.; mentioned in despatches L.G. June 14, 1945; m. June 19, 1924, Mary Gertrude Bidlake, daughter of Frank Winterton, of Thurmaston, Leics.; d. 1977.

Pite, Ion Beresford, elder son of Arthur Beresford Pite, F.R.I.B.A., of Regents Park, London, by Mary Kilvinton, only daughter of William Rutley Mowll, of Dover, Kent; b. Jan. 30, 1891; adm. Sept. 22, 1904 (H); elected to Trin. Coll. Camb. (with Samwaies) July 1909, matric. Michaelmas 1909; B.A. 1912; M.A. 1920; served in France 1917-9; Capt. R.E. June 1, 1916; an architect; Assoc. R.I.B.A. 1919; F.R.I.B.A. 1929; m. Feb. 20, 1923, Charlotte Brooke, second daughter of Commander Arthur Penry Williams, R.N., of Sandhurst, Kent; d. Oct. 10, 1957.

Piper, Denis Edwin, son of Henry Mansell Piper CBE, sec. Nat. Fedn of Employers' Organisations, and Ivy Minnie Olive, d. of Albert Edwin Taperell of Sutton, Surrey; b. 10 Oct. 1919; adm. Sept. 1933 (H); left July 1937; Roy. Coll. of Science, BSc 1940; FRAS; an engineer and co. director; retd Oct. 1981; m. 9 Aug. 1941 Joy Margaret, d. of Sidney Herbert Gellatly ISO MBE; d. 22 Dec. 2001.

PIGGOTT, SIR GEORGE BETTESWORTH, second son of Fraser Piggott, Fitz Hall, Iping, Sussex, employee Ecclesiastical Commissioners, and his first wife Fanny Margaret, only child of George Bush, The Priory, Clifton; b. 30 Apr 1867; adm. 23 Jan 1879 (H); left Dec 1883; adm. Middle Temple 3 Nov 1884, called to bar 13 Jun 1888; South-Eastern Circuit; Judicial Officer and Vice-Consul, Blantyre, British Central Africa 14 Aug 1896, Chief Judicial Officer 28 Oct 1898; acting Judge, Zanzibar 9 Aug 1900, Senior Judge 14 Aug 1901-3; President, Court of Appeal for East Africa, and Legal Member, Eastr Africa Protectorate Council 1903-4; Assistant Judge and acting Judge, Consular Court for Dominions of Sublime Ottoman Porte, Constantinople 20 Dec 1904-10; Chairman, Special Military Service Tribunal for London, and Deputy Chairman, House of Commons Section of Appeal Tribunal for London, during 1914-8 War; CBE 7 Jan 1918; KBE 1 Jan 1919; member London County Council (Municipal Reform) 1917-22; JP London 1918; m. 1st, 12 Jul 1904 Amy, younger dau. of Maj. Harvey Spiller, Brunswick Square, Hove, Sussex; m. 2nd, 15 Sep 1915 (divorced 1921) Nadine, widow of Edward Graves Brinkley, Fortland, co. Sligo, and younger dau. of Sir Reginald William Proctor-Beauchamp, Bart.; m. 3rd, 30 Nov 1927 Winifred Lathbury, dau. of Edward J. Dove, Riding Mill, Northumberland; m. 4th, 19 Jul 1947 Constance Louise, widow of Enrique Juan Penard-Fernandez (she had had two previous husbands), and dau. of Herbert E. Kennaird; d. 14 Mar 1952.

Pierson, Peter Douglas Humphrey, son of George H. Pierson, manufacturing chemist, and Hel­ena Marion, d. of William Edward Jones of Eastnor, Herefordshire; b. 12 July 1919; adm. May 1933 (H); left July 1936; enlisted Gunner HAC, transf. RHA 1940 (L/Bdr), p.o.w. Greece 1941; d. as prisoner in Germany 18 Oct. 1942.

Peter Douglas Humphrey Pierson was born at St Annes-on-Sea, Lancashire on the 12th of July 1919 the son of George Humphrey Pierson, a manufacturing chemist, and Helena Marion (nee Jones) Pierson of 94, Queensway, Bayswater, London W2.
He was educated at Westminster School where he was up Homeboarders from May 1933 to July 1936.
He enlisted as a Gunner in the Honourable Artillery Company in 1939 where he served with D Battery. He transferred to the 2nd Regiment, Royal Horse Artillery in 1940. He was posted to Egypt and later to Greece.
He was captured at the fall of Greece on the 28th of April 1941 and was taken to Germany where he was interned at Stalag XVIIIA at Wolfsburg from the 24th of September 1941 as POW No. 1208. On his arrival there it was recorded that he was six feet four inches tall and that he had brown hair.
He was admitted to the hospital at Wolfsberg on the 18th of October 1942 suffering from typhus. He died there the following day.
He was buried at Wolfsberg Cemetery II, Grave 24 on the 21st of October 1942 but his body was later exhumed and moved to its present location.
He is buried at Klagenfurt War Cemetery Plot 6, Row A, Grave 4.

Pickering, Cuthbert Edward, son of the Rev. Arthur Milner Pickering, Rector of Woolwich, Kent, by Louisa, daughter of Charles Darbyshire Mills, of Newton Grange, Yorks; b. Nov. 21, 1903; adm. Jan. 17, 1918 (H); left Dec. 1921; Clare Coll. Camb., matric. Michaelmas 1922; B.A. 1925; M.A. 1929; M.R.S.T.; asst. master at the King's School, Gloucester, Sept. 1925; student at Bishops Coll. Cheshunt 1931-2; asst. master at Warriston Moffat 1933-6; Harrow View House, Ealing, 1936-9; Ovingdean Hall, Brighton, 1939-41; Bedford School 1941; m. Oct. 7, 1939, Joan Guyon, only daughter of R. F. Guyon-Smith, of Ealing, Middx.; d. 23 Dec. 1986.

Phillips, Richard Percival, brother of Gerald William Phillips (q.v.); b. Sept. 8, 1887; adm. Sept. 27, 1900 (H); left July 1906; Queen's Coll. Camb., matric. Michaelmas 1906; B.A. 1909; M.A. 1919; ordained 1910; Curate of Whitkirk, Yorks, 1910-4; D.D. Angelico Univ., Rome, 1921; Professor of Philosophy, St. John's Seminary, Wonersh, 1921-35; Rector of Haywards Heath (Roman Catholic), 1935-43; Parish Priest of St. Elizabeth's, Richmond, Surrey, since 1943; Canon of Southwark Roman Catholic Cathedral 1956; author of Modern Thomistic Philosophy (1934-5) and other works; d. Sept. 4, 1963.

Phillips, Percy Hepburn, son of James Cross Phillips, of Hampstead, by Anna, daughter of James Hepburn, of Hampstead; b. March 13, 1892; adm. Sept. 26, 1907 (H); left Dec. 1910; 2nd Lieut. 11th Batt. London Regt. July 15, 1912; Lieut. Jan. 22, 1914, Welch Regt. April 1, 1921; Capt. Jan. 1, 1923; served in Gallipoli July - Sept. 1915, Egypt April 1916 - Oct. 1918; Waziristan 1923-4; wounded at Suvla Bay Aug. 15, 1915; mentioned in despatches L.G. June 5, 1919; Major Nov. 28, 1936; Lieut.-Col. July 1940; Col. 1943; retired Oct. 1946; O.B.E. Jan. 1945.