text: Battle of Britain: Casualties R.A.F. or Fleet Air Arm during the period 10 July to 31 October 1940 | Page 14 | WW2Talk
  Battle of Britain London Monument - F/Lt. I J Muirhead
  The Airmen's Stories - F/Lt. I J Muirhead
  Ian James Muirhead was born in 1913 at West Ham, East London, his family later moving to Carlisle. He was educated at Nelson School, Wigton.
  He joined the RAF in September 1929 as an Aircraft Apprentice and passed out in August 1932.
  He later applied for pilot training and was selected. Before the war Muirhead was serving with 151 Squadron. He was promoted to Flight Sergeant on 24th October 1939 and commissioned in April 1940.
  Muirhead was shot down and killed by Me109's over Maidstone on 15th October 1940. His Hurricane, N2546, crashed at Spekes Bottom, Darland, near Gillingham.
  CL1, Oct 15, 2021
  Interesting in that he has a civil death registration record
  Name: Ian J Muirhead
  Registration Date: Oct 1940
  Wonder what states as cause of death
  Tricky Dicky, Oct 15, 2021
  He is bound to have one . It'll say " death due to war operations "or "multiple injuries sustained as the result of an aircraft crash "
  jonheyworth, Oct 15, 2021
  Battle of Britain Hurricane excavation called off -
  Attempts by an MoD team of engineers, firefighters and scientists to locate a Battle of Britain pilot and his aircraft shot down over Kent in 1940, have been abandoned after the presumed crash site revealed little more than a broken-up barge. Report by Steve Willmot
  Hopes that the team had located the last resting place of Flight Sergeant Eric Williams faded after a mass of metal at the site was found four meters down at the site in Gravesend, Kent. A wheel which might have been from the Hurricane's tail section that would have sheered off at the moment of impact was all that was recovered. Project leader Wing Commander David Lainchbury, Officer Commanding the Defence Fire Services Central Training Establishment (DFSCTE) at Manston in Kent said:
  Eric Edward Williams, from Taplow, Buckinghamshire was born in 1912 and educated locally. He joined the RAF from school in 1928 as an Aircraft Apprentice and passed out in 1931. He was accepted for pilot training in 1934 and by 1939 was with 29 Squadron at Debden.
  He was killed on 7th October when he overturned attempting a forced-landing at Colliers End in Hurricane V7417.
  Jerzy Sergiusz Zaluski was born on 16th August 1916 in Riazan, Russia. He enlisted in the Polish Air Force and after completing his training joined the 4th Air Regiment at Copernicus.
  Zaluski is buried in Northwood Cemetery and is also commemorated on the Polish War Memorial at Northolt.
  Photo from m collection
  Battle of Britain London Monument - Sgt. J Zaluski
  CL1, Oct 17, 2021
  PORUCZNIK ALEKSANDER ZUKOWSKI
  Service Number: P/1292
  302 Sqdn.
  Died 18 October 1940
  H Grave 297.
  CL1, Oct 18, 2021
  PORUCZNIK JAN BOROWSKI
  Service Number: P/0250
  Service Section H Grave 269.
  Country of ServicePolish
  Aleksander Zukowski (1911-1940) - Find A Grave...
  Jan Borowski (1912-1940) - Find A Grave Memorial
  Jan Borowski flew with the Warsaw Fighter Brigade in the Polish campaign and, flying a PZL P11c, claimed a Me109 destroyed on 1st September 1939 and shared a Do17 and a He111 on the 6th.
  Escaping through Romania he arrived in France and served with GC III/6, flying MS406 aircraft from Le Luc, south of Dranguignan.
  The Group was withdrawn to Algiers from where the Polish airmen made their way via Casablanca and Gibraltar to the UK. Borowski was posted to 5 OTU Aston Down where he converted to Hurricanes. He joined 302 Squadron at Northolt on 17th October 1940.
  The next day, in very poor weather, his Hurricane P3930 WX-X crashed and burnt out while attempting to land on Kempton Park racecourse. It is thought that he may have struck a barrage balloon or its cable. F/O PEG Carter was also killed.
  Borowski was 28 and is buried in Northwood Cemetery and commemorated on the Polish War Memorial at Northolt.
  Biography copied from Battle of Britain London monument website.
  Contributor: Alun N (50229849)
  PORUCZNIK JAN BURY-BURZYMSKI
  Service Number: P/0236
  Died 24 October 1940
  War Graves Group Row A Grave 5.
  GENUKI: Leconfield Churchyard gravestones etc., Yorkshire (East Riding)
  CL1, Oct 24, 2021
  Name: BLAKE, ARTHUR GILES
  Rank: Sub-Lieutenant (A) (Pilot)
  Unit Text: H.M.S. Daedalus (Fleet Air Arm)
  Secondary Unit Text: attd. 19 Sqdn.
  Additional information: Son of John Henry Laws Blake and Mary Jayne Blake.
  Grave/Memorial Reference: Row 13. Grave 3.
  Cemetery: LANGLEY MARISH (ST. MARY) CHURCHYARD
  Name: Arthur G Blake
  Birth 16 Sep 1917 Tynemouth, Northumberland, England
  Residence 1939 Tamworth, Staffordshire, England
  Death 29 Oct 1940 Chelmsford, Essex, England
  Father John Henry Laws Blake (1871-1942)
  Mother Mary Jayne Carson (1875-1968)
  Sub-Lieutenant Arthur Giles "Admiral" Blake...
  Battle of Britain London Monument - Sub/Lt.(FAA) A G Blake
  Arthur Giles Blake was born in 1917 in Northumberland and educated at Slough Grammar SchooL He passed through the Royal Naval College, Greenwich and joined the Fleet Air Arm, gained his wings in January 1940. His first posting was HMS Daedalus, a shore station at Lee-on-Solent in Hampshire.
  On 15th June 1940 he was one of the FAA pilots attached to the RAF and he first attended 7 OTU, Hawarden, to convert to Spitfires. On 1st July 1940 Blake joined 19 Squadron at Duxford, where his colleagues gave him the nickname 'Admiral'.
  On 3rd September Blake damaged a Me110, on the 9th he destroyed a He111, on the 15th he destroyed a Me109, shared a He111 and damaged a Do17 and on the 17th he destroyed two more Me109's.
  Blake was acting as weaver during a patrol over South London on 29th October 1940, when he was shot down and killed, probably picked off by a Me109. His Spitfire, P7423, flew on for some time before crashing in London Road, Chelmsford.
  Spitfire windscreen flown by Sub. Lt. Arthur Giles Blake.
  The bullet came from behind the pilot's head and pierced his helmet before hitting the windscreen. The bullet was fired from a Heinkel. Despite this Blake could still see through the windscreen and shot down the Heinkel.
  RAF Museum Colindale.
  A Royal Navy Spitfire pilot in the Battle of Britain – Sub Lieutenant (A) Arthur Blake, Fleet Air Arm, at No.19 Squadron RAF