Kenneth Wilfred Y FISON [1219]

  General Notes:

Kenneth was educated at Marlborough and John F R Hill was his best friend, he was a Cambridge hockey blue.

In WWII, he played an active part as a radio observer in the R,A.F. Volunteer Reserve. He was killed, as a passenger, in a night flight air crash on the 8 January 1943 in circumstances which indicated pilot error. After his death, a friend wrote in The Times : "His greatest happiness lay in the work he did for others. His enthusiasm and good fellowship were unbounded, and in all he did, he showed the breadth of vision and sympathetic understanding which only comes to those few who can learn from both life and reading."

Kenneth married Joyce Valentin QUILTER [1218] [MRIN: 382], daughter of Walter Vernet QUILTER [1214] and Ethel Grace Thorp WEST [1215]. (Joyce Valentin QUILTER [1218] was born on 14 Feb 1910.)