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John Colin Mungo-Park DFC & Bar (25 March 1918 – 27 June 1941) was a Royal Air Force fighter pilot and flying ace of the Second World War. He was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross in 1940, and again posthumously in 1941. ==Background and early life== Born John Colin Park,〔England & Wales, Birth Index: 1916–2005. Date of Registration: Apr May Jun 1918, Registration district: Birkenhead, Registration county: Cheshire, Volume Number: 8a, Page Number: 836. Retrieved from ancestry.co.uk, 5 November 2010〕 he was the second son and third child of Colin Archibald Mungo Park and Marion (née Haswell) Park on 25 March 1918 in Wallasey on the Wirral.〔http://www.bbm.org.uk/as-mungopark.htm〕 His sister Linda had been born in 1913,〔England & Wales, Birth Index: 1916–2005. Date of Registration: Apr–May–Jun 1913, Registration district: Birkenhead, Registration county: Cheshire, Volume Number: 8a, Page Number: 1120. Retrieved from ancestry.co.uk, 5 November 2010〕 and brother Geoffrey in 1915.〔England & Wales, Birth Index: 1916–2005. Date of Registration: Jul–Aug–Sep 1915, Registration district: Birkenhead, Registration county: Cheshire, Volume Number: 8a, Page Number: 954. Retrieved from ancestry.co.uk, 5 November 2010〕 Mungo-Park's father, Colin, had joined the British Army at the start of the First World War as a private with the 7th Battalion of the Royal Sussex Regiment. On 24 October 1918, just seven months after his son's birth, Lance Corporal Colin Park was killed in action during the Hundred Days Offensive. He is buried in the Valenciennes (St Roch) Military Cemetery in France.〔http://www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=577794〕 John Mungo-Park was educated as a boarder at Liverpool College where he was a successful athlete and sportsman. 'Mungo' had been a family forename for many generations, and he used the surname Mungo-Park from his schooldays onward. The family moved to Bolton in 1934, where a neighbour had a pilot's license and keen interest in aviation. He and Mungo-Park became firm friends, and it was here that the passion for flying was born.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「John Mungo-Park」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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