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Dr Stuart Cox: Memories Of 5bfts And The Raf During Ww2, Jenifer A. Harding
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Dr Stuart James Cox was born on April 1, 1923, and ‘handed in his logbook’ on October 16, 2016. He was a member of Course 11, 5BFTS at Clewiston from September 25, 1942, to April 8, 1943.
After Clewiston, Stuart was posted to several airfields in the UK, one being Barrow in Furness where he met and married Eithne Forman, a Wren, in August 1944. Their son Robert (Bob) was born in December 1945 and their daughter, Amanda (Mandi), in 1950.
He qualified as a doctor in 1953 and became a GP in Gillingham, Kent, until retiring in 1980.
He …