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1 | Agabeg (Fane) | Alfred Fane Peers | Flt Lt | 73930 | 1911-11-11 | British | Pilot | RAFVR | 1 PRU | 1942-07-18 | Spifire | PR | BP921 | Benson | Photo recce U-boat pens | Crashed landing in bad weather | Killed | Memorial at St. Nicolas Churchyard Hedsor. Memorial at Shelsley Walsh Hill Climb | ![]() ![]() ![]() Shelsley Walsh | Also known as A F P Fane or Fane Fane Born in India. Entered the March Mountain Speed Handicap at Brooklands coming second. Raced at the German Grand Prix. Raced at Le Mans. Won the Bucharest Grand Prix as well as the Tourist Trophy team prize in Belfast driving a BMW 328 in the same year. Mille Miglia won the 2.0 Litre class. He also set the fastest time on the Grossglockner hill climb, and won at Crystal Palace. RAFVR at the outbreak of war. Became a pilot in the Photographic Reconnaissance Unit. Discovered the location of Tirpitz in January 1942. On the 18th July 1942 he was tasked with photographing the U-Boat yards at Flensburg, however, he encountered bad weather en route and aborted. Landed Spitfire BP921 at RAF Coltishall, but took off again into low cloud in a bid to return to his base at Benson. With the weather worsening he lowered the landing gear and turned towards a large field next to a railway line. Wingtip clipped a telegraph pole, crashing into the side of the railway embankment near Great Shelford railway station just south of Cambridge. Although the crash threw Fane clear of the wreckage, the impact killed him instantly. He had flown 25 operational missions over enemy territory and had totalled 98 hours and 50 minutes of operational flying time. In 1944, the Frazer Nash owners club erected a memorial in Fane’s home of Hedsor Priory but at the request of Fane’s wife, it was moved to Shelsley Walsh Hill Climb in 1992 where it still is today at the bottom of the ‘S’ bend. Fane’s ashes were scattered at Hedsor with a memorial stone being placed in St. Nicolas Churchyard, Hedsor. HUSBAND OF EVELYN MARY FANE, OF FARNHAM ROYAL. FF 28-3-42 9MU 30-3-42 1PRU 3-5-42 Crashed nr Duxford FACE 18-7-42 SOC 31-7-42 | A Talent Cut Short |
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