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Name: FAGAN, Henry Patrick Feltrim
Nee: son of Major Henry Horace Frederick Fagan
Birth Date: 6 Mar 1900 Chelsea
Death Date: 30 Dec 1935 Nairobi, self-inflicted gunshot wounds
Last Date: 1935
Profession: In charge of RAF Vickers Victoria Flight no 216 Squadron
Area: Nairobi
Married: unmarried
Book Reference: Barnes, Peerage
War Service: Flight Lieut. In RAF
School: Eton, RMC Sandhurst
General Information:
Left Sandhurst 1920, commission in Somerset Light Infantry, then joined Iraq Air Force at Bagdad.
Nairobi Forest Road cemetery - Henry Patrick Feltrim Fagan, British, age 35, died 30/12/35. Died of gunshot wounds
Nat Probate Calendar says he died on 31 Dec.
He was pilot of the Vickers Victoria craft which was extensively damaged in a forced landing at Lamu on Nov 19.
On the day of his death his flying was said, by the 2nd pilot Allsopp, to be erratic and dangerous, and other pilots agreed. Fagan was v upset and went and shot himself inside a Vickers aircraft. A witness said he had known Fagan at Sandhurst - he was quick tempered and resented things said to him.