RAF Sergeant Alexander Stewart Allan, 406711, Medaille Militaire, died of wounds on 27 August 1918. Alexander was the fourth son of Andrew Allan and Jemima Stewart, 1, South Muirton Cottages, Perth. Alexander was born on 27 March 1894 at 6 Mill Close, Perth (Mill Close was at 281 High Street). […]
Over the Western Front on Thursday 13 June 1918, during World War One, 2nd Lieutenant Alexander McKenzie, 16939 was flying as an Observer in Airco DH.4, A7466 of RAF 55 Squadron. His pilot was Lieutenant William Legge, and they were last seen under control during a bombing mission over their […]
Second Lieutenant David Ogilvie Duthie, 79334, Royal Air Force was reported killed age 25 years just 80 days before the end of the First World War on 23 August 1918. He was born on 12 August 1893 and was the son of William and Betsy Duthie, of 38, Causewayend, Coupar-Angus, […]
Lieutenant Alastair Donald Mackintosh “Sandy” Gunn from Auchterarder and was a top-notch elite Spitfire pilot who flew on highly dangerous missions, including photographing the German pocket battleship Tirpitz in a Norwegian Fjord, he took part in the ‘Great Escape’ and was subsequently cruelly murdered on the orders of Adolf Hitler. […]
Originally formed during the Great War, No. 35 Squadron RAF was an elite squadron within No. 8 (Pathfinder) Group RAF. Along with Nos 79, 98, 99, 234, and 264 Squadrons RAF, No. 35 Squadron RAF was known as ‘Madras Presidency’ as the funding for the squadrons came from the Madras […]
Lieutenant Commander John William Charlton Moffat as a RNFAA pilot is generally recognised as responsible for torpedoing the Kreigsmarine (Nazi Germany’s navy) battleship Bismarck. Flying a Fairey Swordfish biplane, on 26 May 1941, Moffat succeeded in crippling the battleship sufficiently that the Royal Navy could pursue and sink it. Moffat’s […]
Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines, yes, they went up tiddly up and down tiddly down in would you believe in the Highlands of Perthshire. It may surprise you to learn that the War Office had to put out a statement in 1907 dismissing rumours that the Balloon Factory […]
A resident of Dunning for many years, Wing Commander Forgrave Marshall Smith, D.F.C., RAF No. 37613, Hiram (as he was known) was born in Victoria, Alberta, Canada on 17August 1913, to Thomas and Margaret (nee Marshall), both born in Canada. Thomas and Margaret were married in 1904 in Montreal. Thomas […]
Corporal McKillop was killed two months after VE Day on 29 July 1945. The lorry he was travelling on collided with a tree at Northleach, Gloucestershire, 29 July 1945. Angus Harry McKillop was aged 37 and was the son of Dugald and Jane Ann McKillop and the husband of Jane […]
The RAF opened an airfield by the village of Errol, within the Carse of Gowrie, midway between Dundee and Perth, on 1 August 1942. Operations at RAF Errol commenced with the transfer of No. 9 (P)AFU from RAF Hullavington in Wiltshire and No. 21 AFU, which was posted there on […]
