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D. A. Walden |
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Full Names |
Rank /Unit |
Years at Q.E.G.S. |
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Donovan Alfred Walden |
Sergeant |
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Date / Place of Birth |
Date / Place of Death |
Age at Death |
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1917 |
Sunday 1st December 1940 |
23 |
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Pre- |
Don was the son of Bertram Alfred & Winifred Bessie Walden of "Ingleside", Poole Lane, Kinson, Bournemouth.
He was a day boy at W.G.S in the late 1920s & early 1930s (Kinson was within the school catchment area until The County Review Order 1930). In the July 1933 Oxford School Cerificate Examination, Don gained an exemption from London Matriculation. He played for the Old Boys Cricket Xl, against the School, on 21st July 1939 and scored 20 runs. A year earlier, he had passed the final examination of The Society of Incorporated Accountants and Auditors.
It seems likely that he joined the Air Force at some time prior to the outbreak of the war, since, by the summer of 1939 he was already a Leading Aircraftman and possibly u/t aircrew. A year later he was in 59 Sqdn, which had been a Fighter Command unit but, in July 1940 it was transferred to Thorney Island and into Coastal Command. By then, it was equipped with Blenheim Mk IV aircraft, the range and duration of which, made it useful in an anti-
On his final trip, Sgt. Walden was the
Sgt. Walden is interred in the churchyard of St. Andrews Church, Kinson.