Quoting from the ‘Fighter Boys’ by Patrick Bishop.
‘The Woods-Scawen family lost two sons, on consecutive days. On the Ist September Patrick a 24 year old flying officer with 85 squadron was shot down in the skies over Kenley. his parachute failed to open. The following day his younger brother Charles, a pilot officer with 43 squadron, was cornered by Me109s over Folkstone and badly shot up. He too bailed out but he was to low for his parachute to open properly. he was 22 years old.’
mmitch.
By: von Perthes - 1st September 2003 at 17:55
Saw a paperback copy of the book I mentioned in my last post in W.H. Smiths today!
By: von Perthes - 31st August 2003 at 22:03
If you can get hold of a copy of ‘The Most Dangerous Enemy’ by Stephen Bungay (Aurum) (ISBN 1 85410 721 6), there are a few passages re Charles Woods-Scawen, the brother with the poor eyesight. He was nicknamed Wombat on 43 sqdn ‘because he looked a bit like a rabbit, and was blind as a bat’. According to this book, Tony ‘had TB as a child and ever since his eyesight had been impaired. He had got into the RAF by memorising the eye-test card.’ In this book, he is referred to as Tony, which was his middle name.
Geoff.
By: trumper - 31st August 2003 at 20:52
http://www.the-battle-of-britain.co.uk/pilots/Wo-pilots.htm
I remember reading in a book that one of them had said to his ground crew that possibly his eyesight was’nt as good as it was supposed to be,i cant remember which book though.
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August 31, 2003 at 4:11 pm