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| rdfs:comment | - Flight Lieutenant Godfrey Brembridge AFC (1 March 1895–12 September 1941) was a World War I flying ace who was credited with five victories . He joined the Royal Flying Corps in July 1917. He flew a Sopwith Camel for 65 Squadron, driving down three enemy airplanes between 18 December 1917 and 9 March 1918, and destroying two others. After the war he emigrated to the Transvaal in South Africa where he started an orange farm, became father to 2 daughters and a son, John Henry.
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| Branch | - Royal Air Force
- Royal Flying Corps
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| death place | - Sywell, Northamptonshire, England
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| Birth Place | - Winkleigh, Devon, England
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| laterwork | - Pilot Instructor during World War II
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| abstract | - Flight Lieutenant Godfrey Brembridge AFC (1 March 1895–12 September 1941) was a World War I flying ace who was credited with five victories . He joined the Royal Flying Corps in July 1917. He flew a Sopwith Camel for 65 Squadron, driving down three enemy airplanes between 18 December 1917 and 9 March 1918, and destroying two others. After the war he emigrated to the Transvaal in South Africa where he started an orange farm, became father to 2 daughters and a son, John Henry. In the thirties, the family returned to England while the children went through school but with onset of the second world war in 1939, he re-joined the RAF, this time as a Pilot Instructor of vast experience and was a great asset to the Air Force who were in great need of additional pilots. Ironically, Godfrey Bremridge was killed doing what he loved best, in a flying accident[citation needed] on 12 September 1941. He was buried at the churchyard of St Peter & St Paul at Sywell, Northamptonshire.
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