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Worthington, Harold, brother of Bond Valentine Thomas Worthington (q.v.); b. Nov. 25, 1890; adm. Sept. 24, 1903 (H); left July 1906; Yale Univ. 1909; A.B.; an electrical engineer 1915-7; served with the first U.S. Div. of Field Artillery as Lieut. in France in Great War I; director of New York Travel Courses since 1924; m. Feb. 19, 1926, Sada Elizabeth, daughter of Peter Van Schuyver Hoyt, of New York; d. 8 Mar. 1978.

Summerhays, Reginald Sherriff, elder son of Thomas Charles Summerhays, of Wimbledon, solicitor, by Marian Edith, eldest daughter of Edwin Sherriff, of Wimbledon; b. April 5, 1881; adm. Jan. 16, 1896 (H); left April 1899; adm. a solicitor Jan. 1905, practices in London; served in Great War I; temp. 2nd Lieut. A.S.C. May 25, 1917; Civilian Remount Purchas­ing Officer, Expeditionary Force; afterwards Legal Adviser to the Controller of Aircraft Contracts, Ministry of Munitions; joint author of Summerhays and Toogood's Precedents of Bills of Costs, 9th and 10th editions; author of Summerhays' Encyclopædia for Horsemen, The Observor's Book of Horses and Ponies, and many other authoritative works and articles on horses and horsemanship; judge, breeder and exhibitor of horses; m. 1st July 25, 1906, Annie May, elder daughter of Arthur Owen, of Eastbourne, Sussex; 2nd Sept. 18, 1944, Winifred Edna, elder daughter of Walter Varley, of Bessacarr, Yorks; d. 25 Oct. 1976.

Berger, John Stephen, son of Major-General Ernest Archibald Berger, of Baling, by Margaret C., daughter of Thomas Brereton, of Nenagh, co. Tipperary; b. March 4, 1876; adm. Sept. 1889 (H); left July 1892; a mining engineer in S. America, and in Mines Dept., Federated Malay States, 1908-31; m. April 12, 1909, Violet Frances, daughter of Basil Grey, of Ceylon; d. Dec. 15, 1946.

Norris, Forster Jerningham, brother of Peter John Bedingfield Norris (qv); b. 29 July 1913; adm. May 1927 (H); left July 1931; RASC 1940-5 (Maj.); BBC staff; m. 8 Jan. 1947 Molly, d. of John Lee Hunt of Norbury, Middx; d. 21 July 1981.

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.

Nash, Alexander Desmond Michael, son of Christopher Michael and Ethelinda Jarman Nash of Ealing; b. 24 Nov. 1922; adm. Sept. 1936 (H); left July 1939; RAFVR 1941-4 (Flt Lieut.); killed in action 19 Dec 1943.

Bunting, Paul Lidgett, brother of Christopher Evelyn Bunting (qv); b. 29 Dec. 1926; adm. Sept. 1941 (H); left July 1944; Trin. Coll. Camb., matric. 1944; RN (FAA); accidentally killed on active service 5 July 1946.

Paul Lidgett Bunting was born at Queen’s Road, Bayswater, London on the 29th of December 1926 the son of Sheldon Arthur Steward Bunting MA, MBE, MICE, BSc an engineer for the Indian Public Works Department, and Kathleen (nee Collett) Bunting of 33, Kingsley Way, Hampstead, London N2 and of Northleach, near Cheltenham in Gloucestershire
He was educated at Westminster School where he was up Homeboarders from September 1941 to July 1944. He matriculated for Trinity College, Cambridge on the 1st of October 1944 as a Royal Navy Officer Cadet. He was posted to the Royal Naval School of Music near Burford, Oxfordshire.
On the night of the 4th/5th of July 1946, Paul Bunting was one of a number of Marines who were traveling in a lorry while returning from leave in Cheltenham to their base at Burford. At midnight the lorry was in collision with a civilian lorry at Hangman’s Stone, near Northleach. He died at the scene from a fracture to the base of his skull; his body was taken to Northleach mortuary.
The dead and injured were: -
Musician Charles Walter Montgomery (Died from injuries at the Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford) Musician G. De Peyer (Injured)
Musician Paul Lidgett Bunting
Musician B. Farmer (Injured)
Marine L. Midham (Head injuries)
Coporal C.W. Freeland

An inquiry was held into the accident which concluded that the naval lorry had been traveling over the centre line of the road at a speed of 30-35 miles per hour when the collision occurred. The Coroner concluded: - “There is no evidence here of undue speeding, and I think of the two drivers concerned, Ogden, the Royal Marine driver, was to blame for the collision. Whatever carelessness there was on his part amounts to nothing more than to justify me recording a verdict of misadventure.”
He is commemorated on the war memorial at Trinity College, Cambridge.
He is commemorated on the Portsmouth Naval Memorial Panel 94.

Blake, Geoffrey Alan Stanford, son of Henry Edward Blake MRCS, and Gwendoline May, d. of Stanley Stanford of Edgbaston, Warks; b. 18 July 1922; adm. Sept. 1935 (H); left Dec. 1939; RAF (LAC), killed on active service 6 April 1941.

Geoffrey Alan Stanford Blake was born at Lambeth, South London on the 22nd of April 1922 the only son of Dr Henry Edward Blake MRCS and Gwendoline May (nee Stanford) Blake of Edgbaston in Warwickshire and of 98, Gloucester Place, Hyde Park in London. He was educated at Westminster School where he was up Homeboarders from September 1935 to December 1939. He played at goalkeeper for the Football XI in 1939. He was a member of the Officer Training Corps and achieved Certificate A in March 1939.
He enlisted in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve and was posted to No. 5 Service Flying Training School based at RAF Tern Hill for pilot training.
At 3.10am on the 6th of April 1941, Geoffrey Blake took off for a solo night training flight in Master Mk I T8569. At the time he had accumulated a total of 45.55 hours of total solo flying time of which 17 hours were on Master aircraft. As the aircraft lifted off it collided with the roof of a hangar, causing the aircraft to crash and burn out, killing him.
His funeral took place on the 10th of April 1941.
The Elizabethan wrote of him: - “Most members of the School will remember well his consistent cheerfulness and the grace and agility with which he kept goal for the School during his last term.”
He is buried at St Peter’s Church, Stoke-Upon-Tern Row F Grave 212.

Antrobus, George Pollock, son of Edward Gream Antrobus, C.M.G., of Westminster, Chief Accountant, office of the Crown Agent for the Colonies, by Agnes Minnie, eldest daughter of James Edward Pollock, M. D., F.R.C.P., of London; b. Oct. 12, 1892; adm. Sept. 22, 1904 (H); Exhibitioner 1905; K.S. (non-resident) 1906; elected to an exhibition at Ch. Ch. Oxon. July 1911, matric. Michaelmas 1911; B.A. 1914; appointed a temp. clerk in the Foreign Office Sept. 20, 1915; a King's Messenger in the Foreign Office Oct. 4, 1919; O.B.E. March 30, 1920; killed in an air raid on London Nov. 1940.

George Pollock Antrobus was born at West Kensington, London on the 12th of October 1892 the only son of Edward Greason Antrobus CMG, an Accountant Officer of the Crown Agents of the Colonies, and Agnes Minnie (nee Pollock) Antrobus of 91, George Square, Westminster, later of 15, York Road, Leamington Spa in Warwickshire. He was christened at St Andrew’s Church, Kensington on the 14th of November 1982.
He was educated at Westminster School where he was up Homeboarders from the 22nd of September 1904 to July 1911 and was awarded an Exhibition in 1905. He was a non resident King’s Scholar from 1906 and was a member of the Debating Society in 1910 and 1911. He matriculated for Christ Church, Oxford in 1911 where he read History and achieved a Second Class BA in 1914. He was appointed as a temporary clerk at the Foreign Office on the 20th of September 1915 and was appointed as a King’s Messenger on the 4th of October 1919. He was awarded the OBE for - “services in Parliamentary Department, Foreign Office” which was announced by St James’s Palace on the 30th of March 1920.
He wrote the book, “King’s Messenger 1918-1940: Memoirs of a Silver Greyhound”, which was published by H, Jenkins in 1941. He retired from the civil service and went to live with his father at 15, York Road, Leamington Spa.
On the night of the 13th/14th of November 1940, the Luftwaffe launched a major attack on the city of Coventry, dispatching some 515 bombers which dropped 500 tons of high explosive bombs, 30,000 incendiaries and 50 landmines on the city. During the raid, one enemy aircraft passed over Leamington Spa which dropped a stick of seven bombs across the town. That night Edward Antrobus had been attending a party at the home of Mr and Mrs Millett at 32, Portland Place and had just returned home, on what was his 80th birthday, when a single high explosive bomb hit the house at 10.58pm, killing him and his son George. There were four others killed in the town that night.
Their funerals took place at All Saints Church, Leamington Spa
He is commemorated on the Leamington Memorial to civilians lost in air raids.
He is buried at Leamington Cemetery, Brunswick Street.