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Denis Ewart Bernard Kingston Shipwright AE FRSA (20 May 1898 – 13 September 1984) was a British soldier and Royal Air Force officer who served throughout both world wars. In his youth he became a motor racing driver; after a brief political career, he found it difficult to find work but eventually went into the film industry. His later life was spent working as a civil servant but he kept up his hobbies and developed an interest in Unidentified Flying Objects. ==Early life and wartime service== Shipwright was born in London,〔Michael Stenton and Stephen Lees, "The Who's Who of British members of parliament" vol 3, Harvester Press, Sussex, 1979, p. 326.〕 the second son of Thomas Johnson Shipwright;〔"Register of admissions to the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple, from the fifteenth century to the year 1944", Vol 3, Butterworth, 1949, p. 858.〕 his mother was the classical pianist and composer Adelina de Lara.〔"Forthcoming Marriages", ''The Times'', 7 March 1918, p. 9.〕 At the age of 16 in 1914 he enlisted in the Army as a Private.〔 He initially fought in the First World War as a Despatch Rider with the 2/1st Kent Cyclist Battalion (attached to the Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment), and then became a Pilot for the Royal Flying Corps.〔"Debrett's House of Commons and Judicial Bench, 1923", p. 127.〕
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