Nevill Vintcent [SEP] date of death
Nevill Vintcent
Nevill Vintcent, OBE, DFC (1902–1942) was a South African aviator and airline founder. He was the son of Charles Vintcent, a South African cricketer.
Early life.
Nevill Vintcent, a South African, born in 1902, entered Osborne in 1916, proceeded to the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, and served in HMS "Temeraire" for a few months during the Great War. In 1920 he went to the Royal Air Force College Cranwell with the first course, was commissioned in the
For two years he was engaged with spreading the gospel of aviation in India, and his contact with Mr. J.R.D. Tata, of Tata Sons Ltd, gave birth to Tata Airlines. 
Nevill Vintcent and J.R.D. Tata together pioneered the air mail service from London to the sub-continent. On 8 October 1932, an Imperial Airways aircraft flew from London to Karachi. J R D Tata, in a de Havilland Puss Moth took the mail on to Bombay, where Nevill Vintcent then took over for the leg to Madras, arriving