Michael Rhodes
2009-01-28 18:47:16 UTC
Sir Russell Wood, KCVO, VRD, naval aviator and Deputy Treasurer to the
Queen 1969-85, was born on May 16, 1922. He died on December 15, 2008,
aged 86. Russell Wood’s lengthy service in the Fleet Air Arm and his
survival from 1942 to 1945 in the same squadron despite enemy action
and his ration of engine failures and carrier-deckbarrier prangs was
highly unusual. He flew in many of the famous campaigns of the war.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article5593146.ece
He signed up to join the Navy on his 18th birthday in May 1940 and
after a period sweeping leaves in the barracks was accepted for pilot
training as a Leading Airman rating, first at Luton, Bedfordshire and
then Ontario, Canada. Promoted to acting midshipman, he returned to
the Fighter School at Yeovilton, qualifying as a Fulmar pilot and
joining the frontline 809 Squadron, based in June 1942 at the naval
air station at Twatt in Orkney.
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Queen 1969-85, was born on May 16, 1922. He died on December 15, 2008,
aged 86. Russell Wood’s lengthy service in the Fleet Air Arm and his
survival from 1942 to 1945 in the same squadron despite enemy action
and his ration of engine failures and carrier-deckbarrier prangs was
highly unusual. He flew in many of the famous campaigns of the war.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article5593146.ece
He signed up to join the Navy on his 18th birthday in May 1940 and
after a period sweeping leaves in the barracks was accepted for pilot
training as a Leading Airman rating, first at Luton, Bedfordshire and
then Ontario, Canada. Promoted to acting midshipman, he returned to
the Fighter School at Yeovilton, qualifying as a Fulmar pilot and
joining the frontline 809 Squadron, based in June 1942 at the naval
air station at Twatt in Orkney.
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