Brian slade biography
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Flight Lieutenant 121451 (Ivor Charles) Brian Slade DFC
Royal Air Force, 83 Squadron
Killed in Action 24th August 1943
Son of Horace Bernard and Emily Caroline Slade, of Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire.
Berlin 1939-1945 War Cemetery Coll.
grave 8.
Brian slade biography
D. 22-27.
Brian Slade (full name Ivor Charles Brian Slade) was a pupil at Hemel Hempstead School when war broke out. A contemporary, D.R.S. Collier remembers, “Brian, not a big chap but a clever little footballer, sat his School Certificate examination in 1940 and that year, at the age of 16, left school.
Immediately – without his parents' permission – falsified his age as being 18 and volunteered for flying duties with the Royal Air Force.”
Brian Slade at school Brian Slade's grave in Berlin
Training
He became a pilot in the RAF.
His first posting was at RAF Halton near Tring