No mention of Richard Bolitho anywhere in either of the autobiographical volumes I have found, so I presume there’s no known connection. There were 477 Bolithos in England in 1911 (mostly in Cornwall), so it’s possible they were related, but it’ll take a better man than me to find the connection.
I’ve yet to get the Simpson biography (a recent re-issue makes it harder to get for next to nothing from ABE!) but he writes in My Restless Years about his relationship with various (mostly unnamed, apart from the Atcherley brothers) RAF pilots from Debden when he lived at Hempstead. It has, however, probably solved how great uncle Fred got involved – a quick check of the 1937 directory shows that HB was living at the opposite end of the lane to Fred’s family.
Adrian
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