Second Lieutenant Pilot Neville METCALFE
189 (Night) Training Squadron, Royal Air Force
Killed in a flying accident, Wednesday 7th August 1918, Hornchurch, Essex, Age 23
Home address:
190 Muslin Street*, Newton, Hyde, Cheshire
Born:
1895, New Mills, Derbyshire
Parents:
Agnes Metcalfe and Sidney Metcalfe
3 Werneth Avenue, Hyde, Cheshire
Marital Status:
Single
Occupation:
Bleacher Labourer
Enlisted:
-
Remembered:
St Andrew's churchyard, Hornchurch, Essex, plot II.
Link to Hyde:
Mother lived in Hyde
Brother to Private 240416 Charles Louis Metcalfe.
Second Lieutenant Neville Metcalfe flew a Sopwith Camel, registered D6683, built by Boulton and Paul.
Hyde Reporter, 17th August 1918, page 5, column 3:
About five weeks ago he had an accident while flying, but his machine fell in a tree and saved him from serious injury. He was hurt slightly in the shoulder.
The message on his CWGC gravestone, put there by his mother:
* Muslin Street is now Talbot Road. See our notes on Old Place Names.