Richard Lawrence Verity (1913-1940) [85279, Pilot-Officer, Royal Air Force] ✓
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- born 24 December 1913 in Huddersfield (Q4 1913 Huddersfield née Buckley)
- son of Rev. Walter Henry Verity & Edith May (née Buckley)
- prior to death, lived at 24 All Saints Road, St. Annes-on-the-sea, Lancashire
- died 3 December 1940
Records:
- 1921 Census (FindMyPast) – Vicarage, Station Road, Slaithwaite (father: “clerk in holy orders”, Vicar of Slaithwaite)
- 1939 Register (FindMyPast) – Vicarage Slaithwaite (parents)
- 1939 Register (FindMyPast) – Old Rectory Torbryan, Totnes, Newton Abbot (“Royal Air Force No 1 Squadron”)
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Notes:
- some of the family trees on Ancestry have the wrong parents for Richard
- “As the aircraft climbed, so the port engine faltered and moments later the Blenheim hit the ground.”
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Yorkshire Post (19/Sep/1935):
Mr. Richard Lawrence Verity, second son of the Rev. Canon W. H. Verity and Mrs. Verity, of the Vicarage, Slaithwaite, has been appointed Classics Master at the Wolborough Boarding School for Boys, Newton Abbot, Devon, and will take up his duties there on Monday. Mr. R. L. Verity took his B.A. at Leeds University two years ago, and his Diploma of Education last year.
Yorkshire Post (03/Dec/1940):
Former Slaithwaite Vicar’s Son Killed
Official news has been received that Pilot Officer Richard Lawrence Verity, an observer in the R.A.F., son of Canon and Mrs. W. H. Verity, of 24, All Saints’ Road, St. Annes-on-Sea, and up to October of this year of the Vicarage, Slaithwaite, has been killed on active service.
Pilot-Officer Verity, who was 26, was educated at St. John’s School, Chepstow, Lancaster Grammar School, and Leeds University. He took his B.A. degree at Leeds in 1933 and his Diploma in Education a year later. Since 1935 he has been Classics master at the Wellborough Hill Boarding School for Boys, Newton Abbot, Devon. While there he was in the Air Force Reserve and on the outbreak of war he joined the R.A.F.
He played Rugby for Leeds University, Huddersfield Y.M.C.A., and Newton Abbot. During the war he played for the Services.
Huddersfield Examiner (07/Dec/1940):
Pilot-Officer R. L. Verity Killed on Active Service
Pilot Officer Richard Lawrence Verity, second son of Canon W. H. Verity, formerly Vicar of Slaithwaite, and now living at St. Annes, has been killed on active service. He was twenty-six years of age.
Pilot Officer Verity was educated at St. John’s School, Chepstow, and Lancaster Grammar School and Leeds University. At the University he obtained his B.A. degree, He entered the teaching profession, and became assistant master at Wellborough Hall School, Newton Abbot, Devon. While at the school he was in the Air Force Reserve, and when war broke out he joined the Air Force. When in the Huddersfield district he played in the Y.M.C.A. Rugby team.
He was one of three brothers. The others are Mr. Peter Verity and Mr. Anthony Malcolm Verity. The last-mentioned, the youngest, is in an officers’ training corps. A number of his personal friends in the Colne Valley attended the funeral at St. Annes-on-Sea on Tuesday.
A bearer party from the R.A.F. carried the flag-draped coffin to the grave side, and the many floral tributes included those from Pilot-Officer Verity’s Commanding Officer, his fellow officers, and the men of his unit. Those present included Dr. R. T. E. Naismith, Mr. E. Pearson, Mr. H. V. Crabtree and Mr. E. Firth, of Slaithwaite.
Huddersfield Examiner (26/Jun/1948):
Obituary
CANON VERITY
Canon Walter Henry Verity, Vicar Slaithwaite for more than twenty-six years, died at his home, 24, All Saints’ Road, St. Annes-on-Sea, on Saturday in his eighty-first year.
It was in 1940 that Canon Verity resigned the living of Slaithwaite-cum-Lingards with East Scammonden for health reasons, and his departure from the district to live at St. Annes was marked by sincere regret on the part of the parishioners.
Canon Verity went to Slaithwaite in 1914 after having been Vicar of Longwood for thirteen years. He had previously been curate at St. Paul’s, Huddersfield, for four years, and Diocesan secretary for the Church of England Temperance Society for a similar period, making a total of forty-six years’ work in the district. During the time he was at Slaithwaite, Canon Verity had been chairman of the Colne Valley District Education Committee and of the Slaithwaite School Managers. He was also a member of the old Huddersfield School Board.
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