Wg Cdr GORDON CONWAY DFC

Hi! I just wanted to say that tonight I found your forum and a post from February 2003 about my Dad, Wg Cdr Gordon Conway DFC who had just died.

I am greatly touched that Moggy C should have gone to the trouble at the time to add the obituary from his local East Anglian Times and was chhered by the comments.

My Dad was a Second World War Fighter Ace, flying first Hurricanes and then Spitfires in the Far Eastern Theatre of War after arriving in Ceylon in March 1942 until he returned home in December 1945.

Last year I discovered the BBC’s WW2 Peoples War project and I spent some months contributing to this writing up many of Dad’s stories of life living and flying as one of The Woodpeckers, 136 Fighter Squadron. This has now become a permanent archive and I post this tonight as I want to alert you all to how much fantastic personal history is now available to us all to read and savour.

If you want to read some of my Dad’s experiences, please either use Google and just type in eg ‘ Gordon Conway Woodpeckers’ which will take you to one or two of the tales or go directly to the WW2 Peoples War section within the BBC website and search for him or 136 Squadron there.

There are only one or two of his fellow fighter pilots still alive and alas, in poor health: they were all heroes! We should not forget them…..