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Nadin, Richard Eric Dorning, son of Eric Dorning Nadin of Lymm, Cheshire, and Agnes Roberts Georgina. d. of John Richard Spaven of Levenshulme, Manchester; b. 7 Sept. 1914; adm. Sept. 1928 (KS); left July 1931; a bank clerk; London Scottish in WW2, transf. Army Air Corps and trained as glider pilot; killed in a flying accident 13 Oct. 1942.
Richard Eric Dorning Nadin was born at Bucklow, Cheshire on the 7th of September 1914 the son of Eric Dorning Nadin and Agnes Roberta Georgina (nee Spaven) Nadin.
He was educated at Stoneygate School, Leicester and at Westminster School where he was a King’s Scholar from September 1928 to July 1931. On leaving school he worked as a bank clerk. His parents were divorced in 1921 and his mother was later remarried to Richard T. Berry. He lived with them at 30, Porchester Road, Bournemouth in Hampshire.
Following the outbreak of war he enlisted as a Private in the London Scottish Regiment before later transferring to the Glider Pilot Regiment. He was posted to No. 21 Elementary Flying School for pilot training.
On the 13th of October 1942, Richard Nadin took off in Tiger Moth Mk II T6444 for a training flight with his flying instructor Sergeant Harold Owen Thomas. During the flight the aircraft struck high tension overhead cables causing the aircraft to crash at Dock Farm, Meadle near Princes Risborough, killing both men. The cause of the accident was attributed to the instructor flying below the authorised height for the exercise.
He is buried at Wimbourne Road Cemetery, Bournemouth Section T.2, Grave 6.5.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2019-2020. Updated by Bethany Duck, Archives Assistant, September 2022.
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The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from Play 1919 to Election 1989, Volume 4, compiled by F.E. Pagan and H.E. Pagan, Padstow, 1992.
Westminster School Second World War Memorial by John C. Hamblin, 2022.