(big delay forwarding this on) When I asked the person who sent the following permission to forward this on to the Cranswick list, I did not get a response. So have trimmed off the contact details. Does anyone have any information that I could pass on? Mainly - surviving photos, information or other records of Philip Cranswick. Cheers, Lachlan. ===================================================== I have been researching and writing the story of Flying Officer Douglas JF McMillan whose father presented to a Swiss based ski club (of which I am a member) called the Downhill Only (DHO) a trophy which is now thought to be the sole remaining downhill race in the Alps where the entire field depart the start simultaneously. This was published in very much abbreviated form in the DHO annual Journal. I am now widening my researches a little to encompass those with whom he served. One such was Flying Officer Phillip Cranswick, they were at Upavon with 3 Squadron for a number of years (1925 - 1928), were sent to Cardiff to keep open an emergency landing ground with one other officer and 20 men during the General Strike of 1926, they competed together in the Sassoon Cup for single seater aircraft in 1928, and were practising on June 5th 1928 for the RAF Display at Hendon scheduled for August, when their two aircraft touched wing tip to wing tip and both crashed, both pilots being killed instantly. There was a joint funeral at Upavon Church and a joint internment in the village cemetery on 8th June. I have photos of both together, in squadron photos and in one other photo, probably taken in Cardiff. I know that Philip Cranswick's wife was called May, they had two children, one of whom was Alec Cranswick (Sq Ldr Alec "Pathfinder" Cranswick) and that when Phillip Cranswick was killed, his home was in Oriel Road, Oxford. Phillip Cranswick had served in the 1st World War with the East Riding Field Company RE. 7/9/15 2nd Lt, posted to France 18/1/16, promoted to Lt 12/4/16, and Major in March 1917. Not clear how he then transferred to the RFC, or later to the RAF, but he was awarded the MC whilst in the army and can be seen as a flying officer at Upavon with medal ribbons to rival many much more senior officers. He was 33 years old when killed. On his headstone he is referred to as Flying Officer Major Cranswick. At his grave in Upavon, there is a smaller stone at the foot of his grave to his son, Sq Ldr Alec Cranswick. I am interested in establishing whether there are surviving photos, information or other records of Philip Cranswick. I plan to produce a booklet on McMillan so as to include much of the data that the ski club magazine had not space to reproduce. I would therefore like to include more information on Cranswick too, hence this message. Any descendants able to help? ===================================================== ----------------------- Lachlan M. D. Cranswick Collaborative Computational Project No 14 (CCP14) for Single Crystal and Powder Diffraction Birkbeck University of London and Daresbury Synchrotron Laboratory Postal Address: CCP14 - School of Crystallography, Birkbeck College, Malet Street, Bloomsbury, WC1E 7HX, London, UK Tel: (+44) 020 7631 6850 Fax: (+44) 020 7631 6803 E-mail: [email protected] Room: B091 WWW: http://www.ccp14.ac.uk/