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Distinguished Flying Cross (DFC)

The Distinguished Flying Cross (DFC) was established on June 3rd, 1918, the birthday of King George V, and is awarded to Officers and Warrant officers for "an act or acts of valour and courage or devotion to duty performed whilst flying in active operations against the enemy". A straight silver bar is a further enhancement of the DFC, awarded for additional acts under the same terms as the cross.

The award has the shape of a silver cross and was designed by Edward Carter Preston. On the obverse aeroplane propellers are superimposed upon the vertical arms of the cross. Within a central winged roundel, encircled by a wreath of laurels and surmounted by a Imperial Crown, appear the letters RAF. In the central circle on the reverse the Royal Cyphers, GV, GVI, EIIR, appear above the date 1918. The year of issue is engraved on the lower arm of the award. The DFC is issued unnamed.
The ribbon is 1.25 inches wide, and consists of alternating violet and white stripes, each 0.125 inches wide, leaning at 45 degrees from the vertical. Until 1919, the stripes were horizontal.

From the entire period of the award from it’s inception in 1918 until 1939 when the award changed to the GVI type, only 1,217 GV DFC's were issued.

During the Second World War a total of 20,354 DFCs were awarded, with approximately 1,550 first bars and 42 second bars. Honorary awards were made on 964 occasions to aircrew from other non-commonwealth countries.
A total of 4,018 first DFC's were awarded to RCAF personnel, plus 213 first bars and 6 second bars and also 358 to FAF/RAA/RNZAF persons in RCAF, plus 23 first bars. Also there were 247 DFC's awarded to Canadians in the RAF, plus 34 first bars.
New Zealand RNZAF personnel received 1,032 DFC Crosses, eighty four first bars and four second bars, one Cross was awarded to a member of the Royal New Zealand Navy.
A total of 44 Dutch airmen received the DFC.

Aanjesen, Ola Gert* August 30th, 1918
† September 2nd, 2002

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Haabjorn, Erik* January 19th, 1919
† January 1953

Haddlesey, Ernest Francis George* July 19th, 1922
† May 24th, 1989

Haine, Richard Cummings* October 6th, 1916
† September 30th, 2008

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Haines, Leonard Archibald† April 30th, 1941

Hallowes, Herbert James Lempriere "Darkey"* April 17th, 1912
† October 20th, 1987

Halse, A.E.† November 28th, 1943
Plot: 18 Row: B Grave: 8

Haly, Edward Fred Hutchinson* 1921
† September 17th, 1944

Hamar, Jack Royston* December 21st, 1914
† July 24th, 1940
Row: K Grave: 9

Hampshire, Keith McDermott* September 10th, 1914
† November 17th, 1971

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Hanbury, Osgood Villiers "Pedro"* 1918
† June 3rd, 1943
Plot: 118 

Hancock, Allan John† June 22nd, 1944
Plot: II Row: G Grave: 7

Hancock, Norman Patrick Watkins* August 4th, 1919
† April 2003

Hanks, Peter Prosser* July 29th, 1917
† 1986

Hanna, Kenneth Charles "Chad"* April 28th, 1923
† October 5th, 2016

Hanus, Josef* September 11th, 1913
† April 21st, 1992

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Hanus, Zdenek* July 30th, 1912
† November 28th, 1982

Harder, John Worthington* July 27th, 1923
† July 25th, 1977

Hardman, James Donald Innes* December 21st, 1899
† March 2nd, 1982

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Harkness, Donald Joseph* September 16th, 1916
† May 31st, 1942
Row: D Grave: 20

Harnett, Thomas Patrick† December 19th, 1985

Harper, Robert Howard* August 17th, 1915
† December 2nd, 1944
Grave: 200

Harries, Raymond Hiley* 1916
† May 14th, 1950

Harris, Idloes Owen* May 7th, 1915
† August 2nd, 1994

Harris, Paul Ivor* December 14th, 1906
† December 29th, 1985

Harrison, Alfred Geoffrey† July 9th, 2008

Harrison, Harvey William* May 22nd, 1922

Hart, 't, Jaap† March 27th, 2007

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Hart, Kenneth Graham* April 24th, 1921
† December 28th, 1944
Plot: III Row: E Grave: 12

Harte, Frazer Apsley† October 9th, 1941
Plot: I Row: H Grave: 20

Hastie Jones, ChristopherPlot: 28 Row: H Grave: 15

Haviland, John Kenneth* January 19th, 1921
† July 1st, 2002

Haw, Charlton* 1920
† 1993

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Hay, Robert Claude* November 4th, 1913
† February 13th, 1944
Plot: I Row: B Grave: 5

Haydon, Raymond George "Ray"† December 16th, 2010

Hayes, Ralph Gamble* 1921
† November 5th, 1943
Grave: 327

Hayes, Thomas Norman* June 26th, 1912
† July 17th, 2010

Hayter, James Chilton Francis* October 18th, 1917
† October 3rd, 2006

Hayter, John Edward Ross† October 4th, 1943
Plot: K Row: 5 Grave: 108

Hazelhoff-Roelfzema, Siebren Erik* April 3rd, 1917
† September 26th, 2007

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Healey, Everard Frank Gray† January 13th, 1943
Plot: 4 Grave: 128

Hearn, Edward Harty Elliot* March 20th, 1921
† August 29th, 2015

Heath, Wilfred Clyde† November 18th, 1944
Grave: 4

Hegman, John Alfred* June 23rd, 1904
† February 15th, 1944
Plot: 2 Row: N Grave: 8

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Heijnert, Félicité Pierre André* January 22nd, 1914
† July 26th, 1945
Plot: 9 Row: A Grave: 1-14

Helfer, Terence* February 22nd, 1920
† October 29th, 2010

Henderson, Jack† December 22nd, 1942
Grave: 65

Henderson, Selby Roger* April 24th, 1918
† April 4th, 1940
Plot: 8 

Henneberg, Zdislaw Karol* May 11th, 1911
† May 12th, 1941

Herod, George Edward "Ted"* August 7th, 1920
† April 16th, 2003

Hess, Alexander* May 4th, 1898
† August 10th, 1981

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Hesselyn, Raymond Brown* March 13th, 1920
† November 14th, 1963

Hewlett, Colin Roy† December 12th, 1942
Plot: NE Row: 1 Grave: 103

Heyworth, Alexander James* June 5th, 1922
† June 10th, 2010

Hibbert, Ivan Alderwin† August 4th, 1944
Grave: 317

Higginson, Frederick William "Taffy"* February 17th, 1913
† February 12th, 2003

Hiles, Waldo Harry Bentley* 1913
† August 24th, 1943

Hill, Anthony Eustache† November 12th, 1942

Hill, David Lee "Tex"* July 13th, 1915
† October 11th, 2007

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Hill, George Urquhart* October 29th, 1918
† November 1969

Hilton, Raymond† November 23rd, 1943
Plot: 1 Row: C Grave: 2-8

Himr, Jaroslav* June 17th, 1917
† September 12th, 1943
Plot: 118 

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Hirszbandt, Robert Juliusz* September 11th, 1899
† June 2nd, 1942
Plot: Q Grave: 228

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Hlado, Jaroslav* May 8th, 1913
† January 21st, 1990

Hobbs, Alan Murray* June 7th, 1918
† June 26th, 1943
Plot: 6 Row: B Grave: 15

Hoboken, Jacques Robert Christiaan* April 10th, 1911
† November 26th, 1943
Plot: 1 Row: B Grave: 9-12

Hodges, Lewis MacDonald* March 1st, 1918
† January 4th, 2007

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Hodgson, William Henry* September 30th, 1920
† March 13th, 1941
Plot: 40 Grave: 8

Hogan, Henry Algernon Vickers "Harry"* October 25th, 1909
† June 28th, 1993

Hogg, Francis Emslie* October 3rd, 1919
† December 24th, 1990

Holden, Eustace "Gus"* December 28th, 1912

Holden, George Walton* September 16th, 1913
† September 16th, 1943
Plot: 15 Row: G Grave: 16

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Holder, Paul Davie* September 2nd, 1911
† April 22nd, 2001

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Holderness, Harold Hardwicke Clarke* January 6th, 1915
† March 21st, 2007

Holland, Robert Hugh "Bob"† November 17th, 1954

Holmes, Huntley Gordon* August 31st, 1916
† April 14th, 2006

Holmes, John Cecil* 1921
† March 6th, 1945
Plot: 4 Row: G Grave: 11

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Holmes, Melville Percival Conrad "Jacko"* 1919
† January 24th, 1944
Grave: 208

Holmes, Walter T. "Tom"* February 4th, 1919
† May 25th, 2009

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Home-Hay, Jeffrey Batters* February 2nd, 1887
† June 14th, 1953

Homer, Michael Giles* 1919
† September 27th, 1940
Plot: A Grave: 792

Honert, van den, Ritsaert* June 30th, 1920
† October 26th, 1995

Honor, Dudley Sandry Garton* September 5th, 1919
† December 26th, 2007

Hood, Hilary Richard Lionel "Robin* May 13th, 1908
† September 5th, 1940

Hookway, Stanley Gordon† March 5th, 1943
Plot: 2 Row: D Grave: 3

Hope, Robert Bernard* January 16th, 1912
† April 3rd, 1943
Plot: 10 Row: E Grave: 12

Hopgood, John Vere "Hoppy"* August 29th, 1921
† May 17th, 1943
Plot: 17 Row: E Grave: 2-6

Horbaczewski, Eugeniusz "Dziubek"* September 28th, 1917
† August 18th, 1944
Plot: 1 Grave: 379

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Horrocks, John* June 25th, 1922

Horswill, Thomas Stanley* April 7th, 1916

Houle, Albert Ulrich "Bert"* March 24th, 1914
† June 1st, 2008

Houlston, Jack Edward† December 20th, 1942
Plot: 14 Row: G Grave: 14

Houlton, John Arthur* September 23rd, 1922
† April 16th, 1996

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Howard, Basil* July 6th, 1915
† May 29th, 1945
Plot: 4 Row: K Grave: 22

Howard-Jones, Geoffrey Markham* September 11th, 1919
† December 16th, 2015

Howell, Edward Alexander* March 22nd, 1912
† August 4th, 2000

Howell, Frank Jonathan* January 25th, 1912
† May 9th, 1948

Howes, Arthur Edwin Stuart "Ted"* November 17th, 1918
† February 22nd, 2009

Hoy, John Cecil* July 17th, 1917

Hughes, Frederick Desmond* June 6th, 1919
† January 11th, 1992

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Hughes, John McCulloch Middlemore* February 13th, 1917
† December 7th, 1940

Hughes, Paterson Clarence* September 19th, 1917
† September 7th, 1940
Row: G Grave: 4

Hugo, Petrus Hendrik* December 20th, 1917
† June 6th, 1986

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Hull, Ceasar Barrand* February 23rd, 1913
† September 7th, 1940
Plot: E Row: 1 Grave: 477

Humpherson, John Bernard William* 1916
† June 22nd, 1941

Humphrey, James* October 10th, 1921

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Humphreys, Jack David* October 1919
† August 2nd, 1942
Plot: P Grave: 426

Humphreys, John George* May 18th, 1919

Humphreys, Peter Harry* 1920
† November 11th, 1947

Hyde, Ernest Leslie* 1914
† April 29th, 1942
Plot: A IV Row: J Grave: 8

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