Photo Brian Chandler
Pilot Officer
C.E. English
Pilot
Royal Air Force
7th October 1940 age 28
754475 Sergeant
R.H. English
Pilot
Royal Air Force
5th May 1941 age 23.
Lovely and pleasant
in their lives
and in death
they were not divided.
Pilot Officer C.E. English was serving with 605 squadron. He was pilot of Hurricane P367 which was patrolling over Westerham when it was shot down by Me109s. His parachute was caught up in the tailplane.
Royal Air Force Fighter Command Losses of the Second World War: Vol.1: Operational Losses: Aircraft and Crews 1939-1941; Norman L.R. Franks; 1997; Midland Publishing; ISBN 1 85780 055 9.
Charles is possibly remembered on NUT041
Both brothers are remembered in Jesmond on J1.07
The CWGC entry for Pilot Officer C.E. English
The CWGC entry for Pilot R.H. English