War Poetry

Sedbergh

The Flying Instructors Lament was first published in Punch in 1940 and was written by then P/O O C Chave who was an Instructor at RAF South Cerney on Oxfords No 3 SFTS.

In 1942 when a Flt Lt he had a small book of Poetry published by Blackwells of Oxford named Winged Victory.Poems of a Flight Lieutenant by Ariel ( nom de plume)

He was killed night of 14th Feb 1943 when in XV Squadron flying Stirlings from RAF Bourn,Cambs on a bombing mission to Cologne.