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Ted Thorn (RAF officer)
Edward Rowland Thorn, DFC and Bar, DFM and Bar (15 April 1913 – 12 February 1946) also known as Ted Thorn and Roland Thorn was a Royal Air Force pilot, squadron commander and a notable Second World War flying ace decorated for gallantry four times, he shot down 12 enemy aircraft over the Dunkirk evacuation beaches and during the Battle of Britain but was killed in a crash in an early Jet fighter on 12 February 1946.
==Early life==
Edward Rowland (or Roland) Thorn was born at North End, Hampshire on 15 April 1913 the son of Thomas Thorn a chef from Newport and his wife Ellen Maria. In 1916, at the age of three, Rowland lost his father who was killed in the Great War.〔British Army Service Records 1914-18, 83803 Thomas Rowland Thorn〕 His two children were educated at local council schools in North End. At home he was known as Roland,〔Wills and Probates, 1946- Edward Rowland Thorn]〕 although in later life in the Royal Air Force he was known as Ted.〔Shores (1994), p.586〕 He married in August 1939 at Droxford, Hampshire to Marion McAlpine,〔Registry of Marriages, September Quarter 1939〕 they set up home in Bishop’s Waltham, Hampshire.〔National Probate Calendar 1946 – Edward Rowland Thorn]〕
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