Alfred Fane Peers Fane

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Commonwealth War Graves Commission are looking for relatives of Flight Lieutenant Alfred Fane. Service No 73930 = Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve.

The private memorial marking Fl Lt Fane's grave is no longer adequate commemoration.  CQGC are in the process of producing a headstone to mark his grave.

FIND A GRAVE

1911 - 1942

Racing driver. Born Alfred Fane Peers Agabeg in India, he later changed his name to Fane. He raced in the 1936 VI Mountain Championship race at Brooklands in a Fraser-Nash but failed to finish. He competed in the 1935 & 1937 Le Mans 24hr races but retired each time. In 1938 Mille Miglia he gained a 2-litre class win in a BMW 328 driving single-handed to the end. At the outbreak of WW2 he enlisted in the RAFVR (Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve) as a pilot and atained the rank of Flight Lieutenant. It was whilst attached to 1 Photographic Reconnaissance Unit RAFVR that after flying his Spitfire back from a mission in France, he fatally crashed near Duxford, Cambridgeshire. His widow, Evelyn Mary Fane of Farnham Royal, placed a plaque to her late husband at the hill climb course at Shelsley Walsh where in 1936 he held the record for the fastest time of 38.77secs in his single seat Frazer-Nash.

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/22186338

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Alfred Fane

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Alfred F P Fane married Evelyn M Marriott St. George Hanover Square Q4 - 1932 - 1a 949

There was the birth of a son in 1935 -

Evelyn remarried to Frederick Binney in 1946 - Westminster - 1a 965

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Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Immigration Cards, 1900-1965 - Evelyn Mary Binney - 5 May 1910 - arrived  Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 1950 - photograph on card. Parents Gertrude and Tom.

Evelyn may have remarried again to William G Weston - Westminster 1956 - 5c 821

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London, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1965 - Julian P Fane - 1958 - London and Westminster.

  Probate for Julian Peers Fane - died 1 June 1968 -Lima Peru - probate 8 January 1981 London.

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Edited to add - anc tree showing a marriage - Françoise Michelle Bouvy 1938–1989
born  28 August  1938 died ABT 1989 - married 7April 1959 St Cloud Paris France.

Message sent to owner of anc tree.

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Great Britain, Royal Aero Club Aviators’ Certificates, 1910-1950 - Alfred Fane Peers Fane off 400 London Road Isleworth Middlesex  was born 8 Nov 1910 Sijua, India. Profession engineer.
Certificate taken at Airwork School of Flying - 6-5-1937

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