You piqued my interest when you wrote:
"When we passed out of SFTS with our Wings on 23 December, Hasenfus was commissioned, and you will believe it because that's the way the idiot Service managers did things in those days."
which made me have a look in the London Gazette, not least as I hoped to find out something about him - not least whether he managed the usual promotions. However I can find no Hasenfus - if you stick
Hasenfus site:wwwthegazette.co.uk
into Google then you will see. So no joy there. Did he have another name? - Reader123
More of another nationality than a name it might appear from a look at the following links, firstly:
https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/.../2869/data.pdf
which is from:
"THE LONDON GAZETTE, 24 JUNE, 1947
LIST of ALIENS to whom Certificates of
Naturalization have been granted by the Secretary of
State, and whose Oaths of Allegiance have been
registered in the Home Office during the month of
May, 1947.
The date shown in each case is the date on which
the Oath of Allegiance was taken."
then the following, which may be of even greater interest, not least because it seems that what seems to be our man was Polish but educated in Germany, with some intriguing Australian connections:
PERCIVAL PROCTOR IN AUSTRALIA
https://news.google.com/newspapers?n...,4382348&hl=en
16 Apr 1948 - MIGRANT FERRY PILOT
No "hasenfus" emerges from a cursory look at Australian White Pages, but I suggest that Walter and John are better placed to dig further, should they so desire.
Over to you!
Jack