Victor Beamish
While researching I learned that Victor Beamish, Station Commander at North Weald 75 years ago, had been awarded the AFC in 1938 for establishing the Met. Flight at RAF Aldergrove.
Beamish had been invalided out of the RAF in 1933 after contracting TB. In 1936 he became Aldergrove's civilian adjutant until reinstated to flying duties in 1937 and appointed OC No. 2 Armament Training Camp (ATC) at Aldergrove. My subject, OC the Station Flight at the time, spent some of his time flying Met. flights to 19,000 ft in a Bulldog.