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Giordani, Aldous (known at school as Aldo Giordani), son of Diodato Giordani MD and Simone Olivette Francine Marie, d. of Eugène Marie Napoleon Bucher of Fontainebleau, France; b. 12 Jan. 1915; adm. Sept. 1928 (B); left Apr. 1932; Univ. Coll. Hosp. Med. Sch., MRCS LRCP 1938; RAMC in WW2 (Capt.); a med. practitioner; m. 9 July 1949 Helen Christine Hodges MB; d. 27 Mar. 1992.

Giordani, Ennis (known at school as Enzo Giordani), brother of Aldous Giordani (qv); b. 20 Aug. 1920; adm. Sept. 1932 (B); left July 1936; Middx Hosp. Med. Sch., MRCS LRCP 1942; a radiologist; m. 26 Aug. 1944 Pamela Gina, d. of T. H. O'Connor of Cookham, Berks.; d. 9 July 1996

Glanfield, Edward Dalzell, son of Reginald Glanfield AMICE, of Plymouth, and Dorothy Helen Clare, d. of Edward Saunders of Plymouth; b. 1 June 1916; adm. Sept. 1929 (B); left July 1933; Exeter Coll. Oxf., matric. 1935; RASC in WW2; a schoolmaster; d. Oct. 1997.

Goddard, Philip Wilton Duncan, son of Philip Henry Goddard, solicitor, and Muriel Frances Hinton of Wem, Shropshire; b. 18 Sept. 1911; adm. Sept. 1925 (B), (R) Sept. 1926; left Apr. 1927; St Thom. Hosp. Med. Sch., MRCS LRCP 1936; a med. practitioner in Templecombe, Somer­set; m. 3 Dec. 1938 Margaret Kathleen, d. of Thomas Branches Williams of Raynes Park; d. 8 Jan. 1982.

Goligher, Derek Garvin, son of Hugh Garvin Goligher CBE, Asst Sec. and Comptroller of Lands, War Office, and Lilian Mary Stacey OBE; b. 23 Aug. 1915; adm. Sept. 1928 (B); left July 1932; Univ. Coll. Lond., BSc (1st class hons engineering) 1935; Admiralty in WW2; AMIEE 1953; asst engineer Eastern Electricity Board, retd 1978; OBE; m. 17 Mar. 1951 Beryl Irene, d. of G. Wilmot Sutton; d. 12 Oct. 2005.

Goodwyn, Peter, son of Harold Goodwyn, rubber planter, of Felixstowe, Suffolk and Mary Evelyn Goodwyn; b. 4 Sept. 1929; adm. Sept. 1943 (B); left July 1946; RMA Sandhurst 1951; Lieut. RE Sept. 1952, Capt. Sept. 1956, Maj. Sept. 1963, retd. Sept. 1966; Trin. Coll. Camb., matric. 1954, BA 1957, MA 1962; Inspector of Taxes, Inland Revenue; m. 22 June 1957 Pamela Mary, d. of Robert Hermann Alexander Neuschild of Enfield, Middlesex; d. 11 May 2013.

Gordon, Douglas Julian Strachan, son of Douglas William Gordon, HM Colonial Service, of Putney, and Clarice Mary Briggs of Willerby, Yorks; b. 3 Apr. 1931; adm. Sept. 1944 (B); left July 1947; Cornell Univ., NY, USA BSc 1952; asst. man. The London Hilton Hotel; proprietor, Shepperton Hotels Ltd; d. Jan. 2018

Grace, Edward Nathaniel, son of Edward Nathaniel Grace FSI, of Eastbourne, and Helen Lemprière, d. of John Henry Deane, med. practitioner, of Eastbourne; b. 6 Dec. 1914; adm. Sept. 1928 (B); left Dec. 1933; 6 Bn Gordon Highlanders 1940-5 (Maj.), wounded (Anzio beach­head) Feb. 1944, MC June 1944; adm. a solicitor May 1946; sec. Faculty of Music McGill Univ., Canada, 1947-9; solicitor Brit. Transport Legal Service 1950-; HM Coroner W. district of E. Sussex 1977-88; m. Sept. 1946 Ivy Lavinia, d. of Thomas Danskin Henderson of Newcastle-on­-Tyne; d. 13 Jan. 2011.

Graham-Little, Esmond Birch, son of Sir Ernest Gordon Graham-Little MD MP and Sarah Helen, d. of Maurice Kendall; b. 9 Apr. 1915; adm. Sept. 1928 (B); left July 1933; Corpus Christi Coll. Camb., matric. 1933, BA 1936; called to the Bar (Gray's Inn) May 1938; RAFVR 1940-1 (FO); killed on active service 10 June 1942.

Esmond Birch “Bep” Graham-Little was born at Marylebone, London on the 9th of April 1915 the only son of Sir Ernest Gordon Graham-Little MD, FRCP, MRCS MP and Lady Sarah Helen (nee Kendall) Graham–Little of 19, Upper Wimpole Street, Marylebone and of 1, St George’s Gardens, Lynwood Road, Epsom in Surrey. He was educated at Westminster School where he was up Busby’s from September 1928 to July 1933. He was awarded the Goodenough Medal for Modern Languages in 1933. He matriculated for Corpus Christi College, Cambridge in 1933 where he read Engineering and graduated with a BA in 1936. He later trained as a barrister and was called to the Bar at Gray’s Inn in May 1938.
He enlisted in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve in May 1939 where he trained as a pilot and rose to the rank of Sergeant (754494) before being commissioned as a Pilot Officer on the 7th of September 1940. He was promoted to Flying Officer on the 7th of September 1941.
On the 10th of June 1942, Esmond Graham-Little took off from RAF Castle Camps in Mosquito NF Mk IIF DD603 with his observer, Warrant Officer Wilfrid Arthur Clement Walters, for a night flying exercise. The aircraft had been undertaking Air Indication exercises at around 10,000 feet and when the exercise was completed it turned and went into a shallow dive down through cloud towards the base. The cloud was 10/10ths with tops at between 4,000 and 6,000 feet. It was flying over Stansted Mountfitchet in Essex when it disintegrated in mid air and crashed at Bentfield Bury near Bishops Stortford at 5.05pm, killing both men.
The wreckage was spread over a large area with the aircrafts forward section and starboard engine both catching fire and burning out on the ground.
His funeral took place on the 13th of June 1942.
He is commemorated on the war memorial at Grays Inn and on the memorial at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.
He is buried at Saffron Walden Cemetery Compt 39, Grave 10.

Grant, Geoffrey Leslie, son of Rev. Frederick Leslie Grant, clergyman, and Winifred May, d. of Alfred George Uglow, customs officer, of Plymouth, Devon; b. 11 Oct. 1933; adm. Sept. 1947 (B); left July 1951; Trin. Coll. Camb., matric. 1954, BA 1957, MA 1960; Ridley Hall Camb., ord. deacon 1959, priest 1960 (Lond. ); Curate St Luke, Chelsea, 1959; Rector of Nacton with Levington, Suffolk, 1964-2014, with Bucklesham and Foxhall 1978-2014; Rural Dean Colneys, Felixstowe, 1986; hon. Canon, Bury St Edmunds 1994; m. 4 May 1963 Wendy Ann, d. of Thomas Lascelles Heron, county court registrar; d. 23 Apr. 2022.