More Faces from the Past – Rye's Own Magazine

Served with the RAF

Wright & Pankhurst Bus at Rye Station (c.1925)

Richard Edward Giles on the left was the East Kent bus driver for Wright & Pankhurst and often drove the bus PM 9358 which was mentioned in the April 2005 edition of “Rye’s Own”.

Richard served in the RAF during World War Two and lost his life in the Middle East in 1944. Picture from the Iris Giles Collection.