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Name: WINCOTT, Cyril Beresford
Birth Date: 7 July 1896 Surbiton
Death Date: 1973 Portsmouth
First Date: 1922
Area: Nyeri, 1925 W. Kenya
Married: In Elham 1929 Marjorie Anne Cramer-Roberts b. 16 Apr 1900 London, d. 10 Jan 1987
Children: Christine (1910); Tony; Guy; Timothy
Book Reference: KAD, Red 25, Hut, Red 22
War Service: RAF
General Information:
Gazette 22 Mar 1922 on Nyeri jurors list
Went to Australia, E. Sydney
1939 England and Wales Register living with wife in Harrogate as RAF Wing Commander, Air Ministry Dept. for Development and Production
https://afleetingpeace.org/index.php/pioneering-women/wincott-cyril-beresfordb. 1896; RNAS in WWI, then went out to East Africa for 3 years to make his fortune growing coffee, but as the fortune did not materialise came back and joined the RAF. Pilot at Martlesham Heath (in 1931 he was Flight Commander, 22 Squadron), later Air Commodore, Ministry of Aircraft Production during WWII, Officer 'in charge of the West Coast, USA' in 1943 and Air Attache to Moscow after WWII; died 1972.
https://afleetingpeace.org/index.php/pioneering-women/wincott-cyril-beresfordb. 1896; RNAS in WWI, then went out to East Africa for 3 years to make his fortune growing coffee, but as the fortune did not materialise came back and joined the RAF. Pilot at Martlesham Heath (in 1931 he was Flight Commander, 22 Squadron), later Air Commodore, Ministry of Aircraft Production during WWII, Officer 'in charge of the West Coast, USA' in 1943 and Air Attache to Moscow after WWII; died 1972.