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F/Lt. Walter Dowse Jarvis
Royal Air Force 207 Squadron
Walter Dowse Jarvis was born in 1922 and was first commissioned on the 16th of December 1943. Whilst serving as a Pilot Officer he became a prisoner of war on the 20th of February 1944. He subsequently rose to the rank of Flight Lieutenant and after the War he was employed by the RAF as a test pilot, for which services he was awarded the Air Force Cross. He retired from the RAF on 14 June 1955.