Richard Henry Basil Peach - St Cuthbert - Doveridge, Derbyshire - Specific Veteran Memorials on Waymarking.com

Stained glass window in memory of Lieutenant (A) Richard Henry Basil Peach, RNVR, in St Cuthbert's church, Doveridge.

The window consists of a two light stained glass window. The two straight sided lights have trefoil heads and a small quatrefoil above them. The left light contains an image representing St Richard of Chichester, the right St Basil of Caesaria. A frieze across the foot contains the inscription with an image of Lt Peach in uniform at the left and a Royal Navy badge at the right.

Inscription across the foot of both lights:
RICHARD HENRY BASIL PEACH
Lieutenant (A) R.N.V.R., Test Pilot.
Born 6TH June 1922 Died 13TH June 1951
IN THE FLOWER OF MANHOOD

"Lieutenant (A) Richard Henry Basil PEACH. Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve, Test Pilot. Born 6th June 1922 and died 13th June 1951 Son of Harry Bridford and Dora May nee Hawthorn, husband of Margaret Jean Walton nee Rudd. He lived at Crael House, Newstead Abbey near Lindy, Nottinghamshire. Died 18 June 1951 at St Albans Road, Bulwell, Nottinghamshire. He is at rest in St Cuthbert's churchyard, Doveridge, Derbyshire."

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"When the war started, Dick Peach was working as an engineering apprentice with Rolls Royce. He joined the Fleet Air Arm in November 1941. He carried out initial training at Sealand and Kingston,Ontario,and then, following a torpedo course at Crail,went on operations in the Indian Ocean. He flew Barracudas from HMS Illustrious in 1943-44. He became an instructor at Caril in 1945, and completed the first Maintenance Unit Test Pilot's Course at Worthy Down.

He returned to Rolls-Royce in 1946 as Test and Liasion pilot in relation to the Royal Navy. He introduced the art of ultra-low RPM cruising into the Seafire squadrons. The company converted him onto multi-engined Bombers and Transports. He flew meteors and undertook pilot training in engine handling with the airforces of Denmark,Holland and Belgium.

He was killed in the first accident involving a Canberra on 13th June 1951 at Hucknall."

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