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The Airmen's Stories - F/O J M F Dewar

 

John Michael Firth Dewar of Hitchin, Hertfordshire was born on 2nd May 1917 at Sussex Place, Regents Park, London, the son of Michael Bruce Urquhart Dewar JP (1886-1950) and Dorothy Gertrude Dewar (nee Firth 1882-1943).

He was educated at Rugby School and admitted as a Pensioner at Trinity College Cambridge on 1st October 1936 where he read Mechanical Sciences, being awarded a BA in 1939.

 

 

Above images courtesy of Dr. Jonathan Smith, Archivist of Rugby School.

 

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He was a member of the University Air Squadron and was commissioned in the RAFVR in September 1938.

Dewar was called to full-time service on 6th March 1940. He completed his training at FTS Cranwell and arrived at 6 OTU Sutton Bridge on 22nd June to convert to Hurricanes. Dewar joined 229 Squadron at Wittering on 20th July 1940.

On 11th September Dewar probably destroyed a He111 and damaged a Ju88, on the 15th he damaged a He111, on the 25th destroyed a Me110, on the 26th destroyed a Me109 and on the 27th he damaged a He111.

On 4th October he damaged a Ju88, on the 24th damaged a Do17 and on 14th November probably destroyed a Me109 and damaged another.

He was killed on 30th March 1941, still serving with 229 Squadron.

Dewar failed to return from a patrol in Hurricane I V6872. P/O RAL Duvivier was also missing in W9307 and it is possible that they collided.

Dewar was 24. He is remembered on the Runnymede Memorial, panel 30.

 

 

Above image courtesy of Dean Sumner.

 

There is a memorial plaque in the church at St. Pauls Warden near Hitchin (below).

 

 


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