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NS11 at Pulham

NS11 at Pulham

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Captain Walter K. F. G. Warneford

Captain Walter K. F. G. Warneford

THE COMMANDER Walter Kerneys Francis Goodhall Warneford AFC was born on 19 July 1895, the only son of Walter and Mary Warneford. His father, Walter Wyndham Hayden Warneford, was Works Manager of the LNWR works at Crewe from 1910 to 1916 and then Wagon Superintendant at the LMS railway coach and wagon works at Earlestown. Walter’s family home was Lansdowne House, Huyton, Lancashire. By 1919 Walter was “a thick-set, hearty, athletic young man of 24, and a favourite amongst his fellow airshipmen”. Interestingly, Walter was a cousin of Reginald A. J. Warneford of the Royal Naval Air Service who...

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