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Richard AMBROSE

Richard AMBROSE(Dick)

1919 – 1940 · Bella Vista, Glanmor Road, Swansea, Glamorganshire
Father: Ivor Arscott AMBROSE · Mother: Laura Katherine CHAPMAN
👶Birth
06/06/1919
🏛️ Treaty of Versailles
Bella Vista, Glanmor Road, Swansea, Glamorganshire 📍 📎 Birth Cert
💼Occupation (21)
1940
🏛️ Second World War
Pilot Officer 151 Sqdn. Service No: 73040
✝️Death (21)
04/09/1940
🏛️ Battle of Britain
Stapleford, Essex 📍
Killed in an aircraft accident - flew into a crane 📎 Notice 📎 Death Cert 📎 Obituary 📎 Death

P.354506/40/P.4.Casualties — Dept. Q.J.

5 September, 1940.

Sir,

I am commanded by the Air Council to inform you that they have with great regret to confirm the telegram in which you were notified that your son, Pilot Officer Richard Ambrose, Royal Air Force, lost his life as the result of an aircraft accident on the 4th of September, 1940.

The Air Council desire me to express their profound sympathy with you in your bereavement.

I am, Sir,

Your obedient Servant,

Charles Evans

J.A.

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ON ACTIVE SERVICE
AMBROSE.—Killed flying in September, 1940. Pilot Officer Richard Ambrose, R.A.F.V.R., dearly loved younger son of Mr. and Mrs. I. A. Ambrose, 37, Hillcrest-gardens, Hinchley Wood, Esher.

IN MEMORIAM
'THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE'
AMBROSE.—In proud and ever-loving memory of P.O. Richard Ambrose, killed Sept. 4, 1940. Per ardua ad astra.

[Telex message]
10.10 LONDON TELEX OHMS 61/60
IMMEDIATE = I A AMBROSE ESQ MERRIWINDS HINCHLEY WOOD ESHER SURREY =
IMMEDIATE FROM AIRMINISTRY R 332 5/9 DEEPLY REGRET TO INFORM YOU THAT YOUR SON PILOT OFFICER RICHARD AMBROS[E] IS REPORTED AS HAVING LOST HIS LIFE AS THE RESULT OF AN AIRCRAFT ACCIDENT ON SEPTEMBER 4TH 1940 LETTER [TO FOLLOW]

🪦Burial
07/09/1940
Epping Cemetery, Lower Bury Street, Epping, Essex 📍
Section Z Grave 3 📎 Image 📎 Grave 🔗 Link

He is the only person in the grave.

PILOT OFFICER
R. AMBROSE
PILOT
ROYAL AIR FORCE
4TH SEPTEMBER 1940 AGE 21

THEY SHALL GROW NOT OLD,
AS WE THAT ARE LEFT GROW OLD,
AGE SHALL NOT WEARY THEM,
NOR THE YEARS CONDEMN.

Notes

Never married

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