In Memoriam

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Flying Cadet George Fowler
1939

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Pilot Officer Robin Taylor
19 April 1951

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Squadron Leader Ian Gauntlett
12 June 1954

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Cadet Pilot Brian Farrell
18 July 1954

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Flight Lieutenant ‘Mac’ McConville
18 July 1954

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Cadet Pilot Peter Turner
5 June 1956

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Pilot Officer Norman Lo
20 December 1958

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Flying Officer Peter Moore
2 August 1970

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Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of earth
      And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I’ve climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
      Of sun-split clouds…and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of…wheeled and soared and swung
      High in the sunlit silence. Hov’ring there,
I’ve chased the shouting wind along, and flung
      My eager craft through footless halls of air
Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue
      I’ve topped the windswept heights with easy grace
Where never lark, nor even eagle flew.
      And, while with silent, lifting mind I’ve trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
      Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.