Cyril Geoffrey Marmaduke Alington
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photo: 1936, aged 22 b. 19th August 1914 in Richmond, London, the youngest of four brothers. Their father was Lt-Col Arthur Cyril Marmaduke Alington, and their mother was herself a pilot and had made parachute descents; they could trace the family back to William the Conqueror. [The eldest brother, William James Marmaduke Alington (known as 'Marmie') was chief instructor at the Yapton Flying Club in 1937, and taught Lettice Curtis to fly.] In 1933, a public schoolboy in Hythe, Kent; by 1936 a student at the de Havilland Technical School. Competed in the Schlesinger Air Race in 1936, and came 12th (out of 15) in a Dart Kitten in the Devon Air Race in 1937: "Mr CGM Alington, an entry in today's Devon Air Race, being greeted by Flt-Lt W E Knowlden on arrival last evening at Plymouth Airport" - Western Morning News, 24 July 1937
He joined the Air Transport Auxiliary in 1939 - see https://www.ata-ferry-pilots.org/index.php/category-blog-1939/77-alington-cyril d. 1987 |