Who is this Hurricane pilot?

Thanks a lot Mark!

All I can add is that it is NOT Leconfield….

jack ross

I am 90% certain it is Jack Ross.

I have other photos.

Will have to find them.

regards

Mark

Thanks BS.

I agree. The only pics I have ever seen of pilots in any period of 1940 they are always wearing the flat-fronted chamois covered efforts. I’m pretty sure the black pattern didn’t really start to appear until 1941. But……..!

41 Pattern Mike

Hi

The 41 pattern mike was officially issued in October 1940 and so in theory could have been used in the Battle of Britain but in practice it didn`t come into widespread use until 1941.

I have never seen a picture of a 41 pattern mike in use during the Battle of Britain.

BS:)

Mark

There is certainly an uncanny resemblance!

The blast pen behind certainly looks very “Russian”, although there were very similar structures at Warmwell and I have (somewhere) some pics of Whirlwinds at Warmwell in very similar pens.

jack ross

Looking at the background – do I see stubby birth trees, small hills and then posts which could be the construction of the aircraft hides.

Makes me think it is Jack Ross.

Perhaps Cotswold Tim would ID him (being 134Sqn and in Russia as well).

regards

Mark

pilot in Hurricane

When I looked at it I thought it was F/Lt Jack Ross – 17 Sqn and then 134 Sqn. Lost over the Irish Sea when his engine failed (based in Northern Ireland).

http://lend-lease.airforce.ru/english/articles/sheppard/hurricanes/index.htm

Far right on picture of 134 Sqn

regards

Mark

I am pretty sure the oxygen mask microphone dates this as 1941, although I am not sure about specific dates in 1941 when this came into use – but hopefully someone with a more detailed knowledge of such things will be able to comment?

So could your Hurricane man be Paterek then??

Well, that depends on that Tangmere1940’s oxygen mask question. Paterek was killed on 27 March 1941.

That guy photographed with Kellett and others was in all probability Sgt Edward Paterek.

Funnily enough I always thought that it didn’t look too much like Lapkowski from his official photo, despite all captions saying it was him!

So could your Hurricane man be Paterek then??

Its difficult to be sure, but he looks to be wearing a D-type oxygen mask with the black painted 10A/11994 microphone which, I think, would date this as 1941?

I am not familiar with such technicalities. Can you suggest a specific time in 1941 when this thing was introduced?

He has similarities to Sgt Antoni Siudak Killed at Northolt, October 6, 1940.

Yes, there seems to be a similarity. Now, to my knowledge, Siudak flew Hurricanes from Leconfield, Duxford and Northolt. The background of this photo somehow doesn’t tie up with Northolt or Duxford for me, but I am much less familiar with Leconfield.

There is a resemblance to Waclaw Lapkowski, have you ruled him out already? There is a famous sequence of press photos of him with Kellet and a couple of other pilots, in them he’s wearing the same type of helmet and goggles and he’s just as glum!

Hmmm, you’re entering dangerous ground here, Mark. When that famous sequence of photos were taken at Leconfield in late 1940, Waclaw Lapkowski was recovering from his wounds in a hospital. I am ashamed to say it was only very recently (something to do with the 70th anniversary of BoB) that I realised that. That guy photographed with Kellett and others was in all probability Sgt Edward Paterek.

No….

Its just one of the rejected proof pages from that book! :eek::p

Who had face matching software a la CSI and Spooks

Its difficult to be sure, but he looks to be wearing a D-type oxygen mask with the black painted 10A/11994 microphone which, I think, would date this as 1941?

He has similarities to Sgt Antoni Siudak Killed at Northolt, October 6, 1940. Photo from Men of BoB.

Robert.

55 OTU

What were the reasons behind a person thinking it was 55 OTU? 55 OTU was based at RAF Usworth, Tyne & Wear by the way, just for your records..

I have posted the same question on other forums, and two different suggestions were put forward:
1) 55 OTU
2) Russia

Does that ring any bells?