Name
John Michael Firth Dewar
Conflict
Second World War
Date of Death / Age
30/03/1941
24
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Flying Officer
72462
Royal Air Force
229 Sqdn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
RUNNYMEDE MEMORIAL
Panel 30.
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
NA
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Hitchin memorials
Biography
He was born on the 2nd May 1917 and educated at Rugby School and Trinity College, Cambridge where he obtained a B.A. He was commissioned into the R.A.F.V.R. in September 1938, his Service Number being 72462.
On 4th August 1940 he joined 229 Squadron which, at the time of his death, was flying Hurricanes from Speke near Liverpool. He claimed having destroyed a BF 110 on the 25th September 1940 and a BF 109 the next day.
At the time of his death he was flying a Hurricane I VG6872 on patrol and possibly collided with Hurricane I W9307 piloted by Pilot Officer R. A. L. Du Vivier who was also killed
He has no known grave but is remembered on Panel 30 of the Runnymede Memorial to the Missing at Egham in Surrey.
He was the son of Michael Bruce Urquhart and Dorothy Gertrude Dewar of Hitchin.
Acknowledgments
David C Baines – ‘Hitchin’s Century of Sacrifice’, ‘RAF Squadrons’ by C. G. Jefford, ‘Men of the Battle of Britain’ by K. G. Wynn, ‘RAF. Fighter Command Losses’ by N. L. R. Franks
