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Charles David Fearnley Kaye

 Charles David Fearnley Kaye

Person details

Forename(s) Charles David Fearnley
Surname Kaye
Rank Pilot Officer
Regiment RAFVR
Age 21
Death Killed on active service
Place of Death Western Europe
Date of Death 12/02/1942
Year of Entry 1934
House Letter C
School Notes Head of Social
Comments A member of the crew that won the Ladies Plate at Henley, 1938
Commonwealth War Graves Commission Link https://www.cwgc.org/find-record...
Unit
Prefect School Prefect
Military Decorations
Album Number 22
Battle
Previous Regiment
Burial or Cemetery UK > Llandyssiliogogo
Citations
Archives Correspondence file in OR files in Radley Archives
Post School Loughborough School of Athletics
Prep School
Prisoner of War
Radlein Obituary March 8 1942. In February 1942. On active service, Charles David Feamley Raye, Pilot Officer. R.A.F.V.R. (Hellard's-Cocks's, 1934-39).
David Kaye was one of the nicest and most unassuming, and also one of the best all-round athletes that Radley has known. When he first came here in September I934, a rather lanky and very quiet and reserved new boy, probably no one realised into what an outstanding person he was going to develop before he left. He was not one who caught the public eye much in his earlier days, but his passionate desire to make himself as physically perfect as possible eventually bore fruit. He was a good boxer and runner, a member of the first XV, and rowed "6" in the fine crew that won the Ladies' Plate in 1938; he was Captain of Boats in the following year. As. a School Prefect and Head of his Social he rendered inestimable service to the community at large; the members of his own Social in particular will remember the inspiring and yet unostentatious way in which he infected them with his own enthusiasm and the will to win. He was essentially one whom others felt impelled to follow and support without being conscious of a specific call being made upon them to do so; the wish to gain his esteem rather than the reverse seemed so entirely the natural thing. His sad and untimely death in his country's service will be deeply mourned by all who knew him.
Service Number 110881
Place of Birth