Served with the RAF
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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”.
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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.