Harry Gill

Harry Gill

Air Vice-Marshal Harry "Jimmy" Gill CB was a British World War 2 fighter pilot who later rose to be the Director-General of Engineering and Supply Policy at the Ministry of Defence [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/news/2008/03/19/db1902.xml] .

Born in Newark on October 30 1922 and educated at Newark Technical College, he flew Hurricanes and later Mosquitoes during the war. His Mosquito, TA 122, is being restored and will be displayed at the de Havilland Museum in London. He died in 2008.


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