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William Henry "Willie" Rhodes-Moorhouse DFC, (4 March 1914 – 6 September 1940) was a Royal Air Force pilot who was killed in action during the Battle of Britain. He was one of The Few. ==Early life== Rhodes-Moorhouse was born on 4 March 1914 at a house in Brompton Square, London. When he was less than a year old, his father, William Barnard Rhodes-Moorhouse, who was the first airman to be awarded the Victoria Cross, was wounded in action and died of his injuries.The Rhodes-Moorhouse family enjoyed considerable wealth and circulated in the top echelons of upper-class society of the time. William was educated at Eton College, where he was able to obtain his pilots licence aged 17.〔http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-11951642〕 In October 1933, William inherited his father's estate of over £250,000 (a huge sum for the time). After travelling extensively, on 15 September 1936 at Marylebone Rhodes-Moorhouse married Amalia Demetriadi, who had been approached to be screen-tested for the role of Scarlett O'Hara in the film ''Gone with the Wind''. She declined. A keen sportsman, Rhodes-Moorhouse was selected for the British Winter Olympics team for the 1936 Winter Olympics, but an accident on the ski jump prevented him from competing. 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「William Henry Rhodes-Moorhouse」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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