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[Penny Alexander]

Hi, I have just registered and hoping to get more info re my grandfatherCapt Sir Benjamin Chave KBE and ships. I have a post on the relevant forum so please check it out. thanks

[Doc Vernon]

jUST SOME OTHER INFO!

Son of Sir Benjamin Chave, K.B.E., and of Lady Chave (nee Morgan), of Highfield, Southampton; husband of Joan Chave (nee Sanders). (from)

http://www.aircrewremembrancesociety...943/chave.html

http://www.roll-of-honour.com/Sussex/Eartham.html

http://www.unioncastlestaffregister....JAMINE_01.html

http://www.unioncastlestaffregister....MATES_ABC.html

http://www.highfieldhistory.co.uk/#/chave/4537623442

Chave,
Owen Cecil

Son of Capt. Sir Benjamin Chave, KBE (1870-1954), and of Lady Rachel Agnes Chave (née Morgan), of Highfield, Southampton.
Husband of Joan Chave (née Sanders); three children.
29.04.1912
Southampton district, Hampshire
-
14.02.1943
(KIA) [age 30]
[Heverlee War Cemetery, Belgium, collective grave 10.E.2-8]
[commemorated at Great Ballard School Roll of Honour
1939/45]
Acm. ?
10.01.1937 [741000]

Sgt.
?

P/O (prob)
05.08.1940, seniority 30.07.1940 [82955]

P/O
05.08.1941

(WS) F/O
05.08.1941, seniority 30.07.1941

(WS) F/Lt.
05.08.1942, seniority 30.07.1942

04.08.1936
-
09.01.1937
joined RAF Reserve (Class F, Section II)

10.01.1937
-
04.08.1940
served in the ranks, RAFVR

05.08.1940


fcommissioned, RAFVR (General Duties Branch) [emergency commission]

1939
-
late 1942
RAF South Cerney (near Cirencester, Gloucestershire), ending up as Flight Commander, C Flight, No. 3 Service Flying Training School

late 1942
-
14.02.1943
pilot, 15 Squadron RAF (Bourn)
[Stirling I BF448 LS-T shot down by a night-fighter flown by Ofw Fritz Schellwat of 5./Nachtjagd- Geschwader 1 crashing at Helchteren, Belgium]

The following is a Link to my late Uncle Trevor! My Dads Brother!

MacDonald,
Trevor de Trafford

Son in a family with one brother and two sisters.
Married (10.05.1941) Elizabeth Slee, of Devon; two daughters.
02.12.1920
South Africa
-
24.10.1999
Durban, South Africa
F/Cadet
04.1939

P/O (prob)
07.03.1940 [33571]

P/O
07.03.1941

(WS) F/O
07.03.1941

(WS) F/Lt.
07.03.1942

F/Lt.
21.05.1946, seniority 07.09.1943

Sq.Ldr.
01.01.1953

W/Cdr.
01.01.1959 (retd 03.12.1965; own request)

04.1939


entered RAF College Cranwell as Flying Cadet straight from school

07.03.1940


first commission, RAF (General Duties Branch)




served with Bomber Command; various appointments (e.g. India, Ceylon & Malta)

10.03.1948


transferred, Technical Branch