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Jack Davis joined the RAF as an Aircraft Apprentice on 25th January 1933 and passed out on 30th January 1935 as a Clerk, he later applied for pilot training and was accepted.
Davis joined 54 Squadron at Hornchurch on 9th August 1940. (6th September 1939 -Air27/511/3)
On the 31st Davis, Fg Off AC Deere and Plt Off E F Edsall were caught in a bombing attack on Hornchurch as they look off. Davis's aircraft just cleared the boundary fence and then crashed in the River Ingrebourne.
Rescuers arrived to find an empty cockpit. Davis turned up some time later carrying his parachute. Having found no gap in the boundary fence he walked right round and came back in at the main gate.
His subsequent service is currently undocumented until he was commissioned in October 1942.
Davis was awarded the AFC (gazetted 3rd April 1945) and stayed in the postwar RAF, retiring on 6th June 1959 as a Squadron Leader.
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54 Squadron's A Flight.
(pre-27th May 27th 1940 as Flt Lt. Pearson was reported missing on that day)
L to R: Flt Lt Max Pearson, Sgt Jack Davis, Plt Off George Couzens, Flt Lt James Leathart, Fg Off George Gribble, Plt Off Johnny Allen and Plt Off Alan Deere.
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Battle of Britain Monument London
