Henry Brian Despard Pringle

Person details

Forename(s)	Henry Brian Despard
Surname	Pringle
Rank	Flying Officer (Air Bomber)
Regiment	RAFVR
Age	26
Death	Missing, presumed killed in action
Place of Death	Western Europe > Germany
Date of Death	28/01/1944
Year of Entry	1931
House Letter	C
School Notes	-
Comments	War record of 115 Squadron http://www.raf.mod.uk/history/bombercommandno115squadron.cfm Reminiscence of 115 Squadron from BBC Archive http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar/stories/90/a7413590.shtml
Commonwealth War Graves Commission Link	https://www.cwgc.org/find-record...
Unit	115 Squadron
Prefect	-
Military Decorations
Album Number
Battle
Previous Regiment
Burial or Cemetery	Germany > Durnbach
Citations
Archives	Correspondence file in OR files in Radley Archives
Post School	Gloster Aircraft Co.; Imperial Airways (draftsman)
Prep School	Lickey Hills, Worcs
Prisoner of War
Radlein Obituary	June 18 1944. Recorded as missing February 25 1945. Missing, now presumed killed, in January 1944, Henry Brian Despard Pringle, Flt. Off., R.A.F.V.R. (Hellard's, C, 193-33). Though he left school too young to have made his mark here, his contemporaries will remember him as a rather quiet and unassuming, but entirely genuine and unspoilt boy, small of stature, but giving of his best. He was for a time with the Gloster Aircraft Co., subsequently becoming a draftsman in Imperial Airways. Early in the War he applied to them for release in order to join the R.A.F., which he succeeded in doing in 1941. He did his training in Canada and America, and was commissioned in December, 1942. He did many operational flights over Germany, and finally failed to return from one of the big raids on Berlin. His companions in the Service spoke of him as "a grand lad, brave, unselfish, humorous, hiding his keenness for the job under a happy-go-lucky demeanour". So it is with great regret that we record the passing of another gallant soul that has given of his best.
Service Number	134724
Place of Birth