The purpose of this section will be to collect photos of the graves of pilots who have served in 601 Squadron.  In this way we can pay further remembrance to all who have served.  If anyone as information on location, or images of the resting places of former 601 pilots, we would be most obliged if you would kindly contact us with the information.

Willie Rhodes-Moorehouse

William Henry Rhodes-Moorehouse was the only son of W.B. Rhodes-Mooreshouse who one the first VC for supreme valour in arial operations while flying for 2 Squadron in the Great War.  Rhodes-Moorehouse received mortal wounds in the act of winning his VC, and his son would sadly follow his father in paying the ultimate sacrifice while seving his country.  Willie Rhodes-Moorehouse was shot down and killed on 6 September, 1940 while in combat over Tunbridge Wells.  He was buried with his father in the cemetary at the family's private home at Parnham House in Beaminster, Dorset.

James Hammond Hoare-Scott



Hoare-Scott was born on 18 June, 1911 at Chislehurst in Kent.  After attending Cambridge James settled into a career in the family ship-building business and spent much of his time traveling the world visiting with the company's customers.  He had joined the Cambridge University Air Squadron, but when war broke out was in a reserved position as a director of Scott's Shipbuiliding.  In September 1940 owing to the shortage of trained pilots, James was allowed a 6 month leave from the firm to become a fighter pilot in the RAF.  He was posted to 601 Squadron and was sadly shot down and killed on 20 November near Exeter.  He is buried in St. Mary's churchyard in Frensham.  A special thanks to the current parish priest for taking and sending along these photographs of his grave.







Humphrey Trench Gilbert



Humphrey Trench Gilbert was born in Revesby, Lincolnshire on 3 November, 1919.  He joined the RAF on a short service commission at the end of 1937.  He joined 601 Squadron on 16 August, 1940 and managed to have some success against the Luftwaffe.  After several later assignments, Gilbert met an unfortunate end when he crashed on 2 May, 1942 while attempting to take on in a Spitfire at Debden with the controller on his lap.  He is buried in Saffron Walden Cemetary in Essex.






Patrick Chaloner Lindsey



Born in Deresbury, Cheshire on 16 July, 1920 the son of a Great War chaplain.  In 1938 Patrick was accepted into the RAF on a short service commission.  One notable event occurred early in his RAF career when in August of 1939 he was involved in a three-plane collision.  After realizing that one of his passengers had no parachute, Lindsey managed to land the aircraft despite head injuries and a compound fracture to his leg.  He was posted to 601 Squadron on 20 April, 1940.  In action over the Channel on 26 July Patrick was shot down by Oberteutnant Dobislav of III/JG 27 a few miles off St. Catherine's Point.  His body later washed ashore and he was buried at Wimereux Communal Cemetary in France.







Guy Raustrom Branch

Educated at Eton, Guy Branch joined the Auxiliary Air Force, and 601 Squadron, in late 1936 and was commissioned in May 1937.  In February of 1937 Branch was on a cross-country instructional flight in a Demon with F/O Crawley.  After refueling at Netheravon they took off in bad weather and crashed in flames on a nearby road.  Guy managed to climb out of the wreckage and ran back to the burning plane to extricate the pilot, who's legs were trapped in the cockpit.  For this act of bravery he was awarded the Empire Gallantry Medal (later changed to the George Cross).  Branch flew with 145 Squadron during the Battle of Britain and managed to shoot down two JU87's before crashing into the sea after combat south of Swanage on August 11.  His body washed up on the beach on the French coast and was buried in the churchyard at Quiberville in France.

(Photographs courtesy of Ted MacManus)

























The beach where Guy Branch's body washed up


William Meade Lindsley Fiske III

Billy Fiske's story is well-known in 601 circles, and is given in another spot on this website, but he was an American Olympic bobsleigh gold medalist, an adventurer, dabled in producing movies, and the list goes on.  Billy was friends with Billy Clyde and some of the other men who had  joined 601 Squadron before the war.  When war broke out he came to England and worked his way into the RAF and 601.  On 16 August, having shared in  JU88 three days earlier, the squadron was scrambled over the airfield at Tangmere and after the combat was through a Hurricane trailing smoke came in to crash-land on the airfield.  It was Billy, badly burned, and he was taken to hospital, but died of shock the next day.  He was buried in the churchyard at Boxgrove Priory in Surrey.  Recently (see the page on the website) a stained glass window was dedicated to Billy at Boxgrove.