Godfrey Bremridge

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Godfrey Bremridge
Born (1895-03-01)1 March 1895
Winkleigh, Devon, England
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Sywell, Northamptonshire, England
Allegiance United Kingdom
Service/branch British Army
Royal Air Force
Rank Flight Lieutenant
Unit No. 65 Squadron RFC/No. 65 Squadron RAF
Awards Air Force Cross
Relations John Henry Bremridge (son)
Other work Pilot Instructor during World War II

Flight Lieutenant Godfrey Bremridge AFC (1 March 1895 – 12 September 1941) was a World War I flying ace who was credited with five victories.[1]

Biography

He was the second son of Reverend Henry Bremridge (1854–1913), vicar of Winkleigh, Devon, and Dora Milne (1860–1895), who died four weeks after his birth. His elder brother James Philip Alfred joined the Royal Navy, rising to the rank of Lieutenant-Commander before dying aboard HMS Delhi in 1926, and is buried in Kalkara Naval Cemetery, Malta. His sister Mildred Constance, died in February 1895 aged two, just before Godfrey's birth.[2]

Bremridge enlisted into the army, serving in the Army Service Corps in Egypt in 1914–15.[3] At some point he returned to England, and transferred to the Royal Flying Corps where he was appointed a probationary temporary second lieutenant on 2 July 1917,[4] being confirmed in the rank on 6 September 1917.[5] Assigned to No. 65 Squadron, flying the Sopwith Camel, between 18 December 1917 and 9 March 1918 he drove down three enemy aircraft, and destroyed two others,[6] and had a "share" of three victories with other pilots.[3] He was promoted to acting-captain on 1 August 1918,[7] and was awarded the Air Force Cross on 1 January 1919.[8]

After the war he emigrated to the Transvaal in South Africa where he started an orange farm, and became the father of two daughters and a son, John Henry,[3] but returned to England in the mid-1930s. On 12 December 1935 he joined the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, where he was granted a commission as Flying Officer Class "C".[9] On 22 January 1936 Bremridge, then living in Weybridge, Surrey, and Bernard L. Bremridge, a solicitor from Winchester, founded Weybridge Air Services Ltd., a private company, to "carry on the business of carriers of passengers, goods and mails in aeroplanes, etc."[10] However, on 26 April 1937 Bremridge was appointed manager of the sales department at Brooklands Aero Club,[11] where he also worked as a flying instructor.[12]

During the Second World War he served as a Pilot Instructor. He was killed in a flying accident on 12 September 1941 and was buried at the churchyard of St Peter & St Paul at Sywell, Northamptonshire.[13]

References

Notes
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  4. ↑ The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 30183. p. 7083. 13 July 1917.
  5. ↑ The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 30307. p. 9950. 25 September 1917.
  6. ↑ Shores et.al. (1990)
  7. ↑ The London Gazette: no. 30868. p. 10007. 27 August 1918.
  8. ↑ The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 31098. p. 97. 31 December 1918.
  9. ↑ The London Gazette: no. 34240. p. 138. 7 January 1936.
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