Aviator and aircraft manufacturer. Designed the Sopwith Camel. Aged 10 accidentally killed his father in a shooting accident. Expert ice skater and a legend in the yachting America's Cup. Born 92 Cromwell Road. Died at home, Compton Manor, King's Somborne, Hampshire.
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Sir Thomas Sopwith
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Thomas Sopwith
English Heritage Sir Thomas Sopwith, 1888 - 1989, aviator and aircraft manuf...
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Short Brothers
Pioneering aeronautical engineers. Oswald and Eustace formed a partnership in 1897, initially working on balloons. They supplied Charles Rolls, amongst others. In 1908 Horace joined, the company wa...
2 memorials
Sir George Edwards
Aircraft designer. Born George Robert Freeman Edwards at the site of the plaque. He became chief designer for the Vickers-Armstrong company which produced amongst others, the Valiant bomber and the...
1 memorial
2 memorials
Walter Henry Hathaway
Passenger killed in the Handley Page V/1500 air-crash. Walter Henry Hathaway was born on 16 November 1884 in Alderminster, Worcestershire (now Warwickshire), the fifth of the six children of John ...
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Hampden Bomber P4399 Crash
At around 4 am, the plane is thought to have got caught in an electrical storm when it was returning from a bombing raid on Cologne. Three of the crew and three civilians were killed after the plan...
1 memorial
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