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Mr Richard Edmund Gray (1911-1919)
He has his place in the history of aviation for his pioneering work in the development of modern air traffic control, during WW2. He was also involved in the establishment of the first transatlantic radio telephone system. After the war he spent the rest of his working life in America, researching the propagation of electromagnetic waves. He retired to Thorpeness in Suffolk. He never married and died in 1999.