"Press on" Fresson

Air Commodore Noel Fresson was the younger brother of Captain Ernest Edmund ‘Ted’ Fresson OBE the Scottish airline pioneer who features in a number of our Airfield Focus series from Peter V Clegg, inlcuding the latest on Kirkwall and the Orkney mainland airfields. In his latter years Air Commodore Fresson lived in The Cresent, Bath and had a number of children, including one who became a Captain for British Airways.

I’m digging through the material we have here, but if you wish I am happy to put you in touch with Richard Fresson, Tred Fresson’s son who is the family archivist. Just drop me an IM!

Thanks Kev

http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1947/1947%20-%200551.html?search=fresson

There’s this photo of him from a 1947 issue in the Flight Global Archive but it’s not what you want. There’s several mentions of him in Flight.

Regards,

kev35

Thanks guys. I am really looking for a photograph of him when he was with 97 Squadron to add to Jennie Gray’s site.

I am sure you have seen this RAF history.

http://www.rafweb.org/Biographies/Fresson.htm

I’ve only come across brief mentions of ‘Press On’ Fresson in various books. Jennie Gray’s ‘Fire By Night’ has a little info on p.95 – apparently he wasn’t well liked on 97 Squadron. His name crops up again in the ‘Salute Bomber Command’ magazine which has just been published – but again, a fleeting mention ( this time with 51 Squadron at Snaith ) and again, no photograph…..

Bumping this one up in the hope someone can help.