College
Shoreditch College
Service number
64935
WW2 rank
Pilot Officer
50 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Theatre of war
Europe
Date of death
25 March, 1942
Location of death
French coast (near Lorient)
Buried/memorial
Brest (Kerfautras) Cemetery
Biography
Pilot Officer Dennis Reginald Fair, of Teddington, Middlesex, graduated from Shoreditch College in 1937. On March 25, 1942, at the age of 26, his plane with three other crew members went down on route to Gardening-Lorient airport from RAF Skellingthorpe. It is believed the plane, a Handley Page Hampden Mk1, experienced mechanical failure then was hit by flak. Pilot Officer Fair’s body was never recovered. He is remembered at Brest (Kerfautras) Cemetery in France.
Sources
www.aviation-safety.net
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission