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  • ...listed in the [[RAF]] where he reached the rank of [[Wing Commander (rank)|Wing Commander]]. He worked as a war correspondent sending regular dispatches to ...gone to the Far East but was kept for an RAF pageant in the [[Albert Hall|Royal Albert Hall]], which he scripted and [[Ralph Reader]] directed with 1,500
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  • ...he volunteered for all services when the war broke out (the [[w:Royal Air Force|RAF]] was his first choice owing to the influence of his father's experienc .... He was appearing in a Shakespearean play in doublet and hose in the open-air theatre in London's [[w:Hyde Park, London|Hyde Park]] when two [[w:RAF Poli
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  • ...st other things, an [[estate agent]]'s clerk and a factory worker for an [[air filter]] manufacturer, as well as a gifted amateur singer who attended clas ...8, he was called up for two years' [[national service]] in the [[Royal Air Force|RAF]], during which he was a filing clerk at [[Northwood Headquarters|RAF N
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  • ...Triplex Safety Glass, which was interrupted by service with the Royal Air Force during the Second World War. While serving in a barrage balloon unit, he wa In 1938 Horne enlisted in the [[Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve]] on a part-time training scheme. He was commissioned as
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  • ...only son of Charles Gilbert More, a [[Royal Naval Air Service|Royal Naval Air Service]] pilot, and Edith Winifred Watkins, the daughter of a [[Cardiff|Ca When More was 17 his father died, and he applied to join the [[Royal Air Force]], but failed the medical test for [[Equilibrioception|equilibrium]]. He th
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