Vernon Charles "Shorty" Keogh

Hi, 609’s Sgt Alan Norman FEARY’s grandson here again. Just an enquiry about R6922 and X4165. You have R6922 (PR-K) and R6922 (PR-T) and X4165 (PR-N) and X4165 (PR-O). Were Spitfires R6922 and X4165 recoded at some point and why. Which code was first? Also R6690 is listed as (PR-Q) but a replica of the plane Dundas flew on the 13th of August 1940 and the same plane Gaunt was KIA in sits outside Yorkshire Aircraft Museum and it bears the sqn code (PR-A). Also on the photo of the blackboard taken on the 13/08/40 the sqn code of the plane the pilots piloted is written before each name and Dundas is listed as ‘A’. I am positive R6690 is (PR-A) and the mistake occured when someone saw the photo below of Appleby’s machine and misread the serial as R6690 when it was in fact R6637 (PR-Q). I believe this mistake occured before the inception of the internet. R6690 (PR-Q) has been published in books, even if it is wrong the information is so intrenched it may as well be true. The stag in the pictures of R6690 (PR-Q) is in fact Appleby’s family crest and nothing to do with Dundas. I made the picture of R6690 (PR-A), I copied its likeness from the R6690 that sits outside Yorkshire Aircraft Museum.

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The name rings a bell. I’m sure he’s mentioned in one of the Osprey Aces books….

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vernon_Keogh

(l-r: Red Tobin, Shorty, Andy Mamedoff)

PR – A L1082
PR – A L1082
PR – B X4234
PR – D R6769
PR – E L1065
PR – F X4590
PR – H N3024
PR – H X4560
PR – J R6691
PR – K R6922
PR – K L1008
PR – L R6699
PR – M N3223
PR – N X4165
PR – O X4586
PR – O R6915
PR – P R6961
PR – Q R6631
PR – Q R6690
PR – Q R6631
PR – R K9841
PR – R X4471
PR – S N3288
PR – S N3288
PR – T L1065
PR – T R6922
PR – U R6915
Did he used one of them?

Ah for a period shot of these two…both survivors and both depicted in this painting by Wilf Hardy.

Mark

609 Spitfires “Battle of Britain”

PR – A L1082
PR – A L1082
PR – B X4234
PR – D R6769
PR – E L1065
PR – F X4590
PR – H N3024
PR – H X4560
PR – J R6691
PR – K R6922
PR – K L1008
PR – L R6699
PR – M N3223
PR – N X4165
PR – O X4586
PR – O R6915
PR – P R6961
PR – Q R6631
PR – Q R6690
PR – Q R6631
PR – R K9841
PR – R X4471
PR – S N3288
PR – S N3288
PR – T L1065
PR – T R6922
PR – U R6915

Did he used one of them?

He used a few. He sat on a cushion to see out as well.