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Old 4th Aug 2017, 12:53
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Today please remember ATA pilot Flight Captain The Hon. Margaret Fairweather aged 42, the first woman to fly a Spitfire, who was killed on August 4th 1944 on active duty when her aircraft crashed during an attempted forced landing at Shocklach in Cheshire. Buried at Dunure cemetery alongside her husband Douglas who perished on ATA duty in April that year. Theirs is the only Commonwealth War grave with husband and wife.
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