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Flight Lieutenant Godfrey Bremridge, RAF Flight Instructor, Sywell
FLIGHT LIEUTENANT
G. BREMRIDGE AFC
PILOT INSTRUCTORHE THAT BELIEVETH ON ME HATH EVERLASTING LIFE
ST JOHN
ROYAL AIR FORCE
12TH SEPTEMBER 1941 AGE 46
Godfrey Bremridge was the son of Revd. Henry Bremridge and Nora Bremridge; husband of Monica Bremridge of Overstone.
Flight Lieutenant Godfrey Brembridge AFC (1 March 1895–12 September 1941) was a World War I flying ace who was credited with five victories .He joined the Royal Flying Corps in July 1917. He flew a Sopwith Camel for 65 Squadron, driving down three enemy airplanes between 18 December 1917 and 9 March 1918, and destroying two others.
After the war he emigrated to the Transvaal in South Africa where he started an orange farm, became father to 2 daughters and a son. In the thirties, the family returned to England and with onset of the second world war in 1939, he re-joined the RAF, this time as a Pilot Instructor of vast experience and was a great asset to the Air Force who were in great need of additional pilots.
Godfrey Bremridge was killed doing what he loved best, in a flying accident on 12 September 1941. The Tiger Moth he was instructing a student in struck and Oxford aircraft during landing at Sywell; all four crew from the two aircraft perished. He is buried at the churchyard of St Peter & St Paul at Sywell, Northamptonshire near to Bernard Lavan, the trainee pilot he was flying with.
Flight Lieutenant Godfrey Bremridge, RAF Flight Instructor, Sywell
FLIGHT LIEUTENANT
G. BREMRIDGE AFC
PILOT INSTRUCTORHE THAT BELIEVETH ON ME HATH EVERLASTING LIFE
ST JOHN
ROYAL AIR FORCE
12TH SEPTEMBER 1941 AGE 46
Godfrey Bremridge was the son of Revd. Henry Bremridge and Nora Bremridge; husband of Monica Bremridge of Overstone.
Flight Lieutenant Godfrey Brembridge AFC (1 March 1895–12 September 1941) was a World War I flying ace who was credited with five victories .He joined the Royal Flying Corps in July 1917. He flew a Sopwith Camel for 65 Squadron, driving down three enemy airplanes between 18 December 1917 and 9 March 1918, and destroying two others.
After the war he emigrated to the Transvaal in South Africa where he started an orange farm, became father to 2 daughters and a son. In the thirties, the family returned to England and with onset of the second world war in 1939, he re-joined the RAF, this time as a Pilot Instructor of vast experience and was a great asset to the Air Force who were in great need of additional pilots.
Godfrey Bremridge was killed doing what he loved best, in a flying accident on 12 September 1941. The Tiger Moth he was instructing a student in struck and Oxford aircraft during landing at Sywell; all four crew from the two aircraft perished. He is buried at the churchyard of St Peter & St Paul at Sywell, Northamptonshire near to Bernard Lavan, the trainee pilot he was flying with.