Air Marshal CW Weedon
Colin Winterbotham Weedon
- Rank
- Air Vice Marshal
- Later rank
- Air Marshal
- Honours
- KBE CB CBE
- Squadron
- No 111 Squadron
- Born
- 1901
- Fate
- Survived the war. Died 1975
- In the book
- Pages 29, 166
From the book
Links of Long Standing
The first group of RAF airmen to enter Cranwell College in 1920 9 included two South Africans, CW Weedon and FGS Mitchell, a third, Pilot Officer Neville Vintcent commissioned after the First World War, apparently the first RAF Cranwell College graduate to be decorated was awarded the “Distinguished Flying Cross” in 1923. Traditions of exclusivity were well established by 1930 and at £100 a term, academically bright 17- to 19-year-old young men with leadership qualities and sporting talent, mostly from wealthy backgrounds and English Public Schools, were allocated unique Service No’s when they graduated from RAF Cranwell.
Links of Long Standing
Born in Durban, Air Marshal Sir Colin Winterbotham Weedon KBE CBE CB served in the Royal Navy from 1915 to 1919, commanded No 111 Squadron in the mid 1930’s and served in technical capacities during the Second World War. He retired in 1951, became a Director of Rolls Royce and died in 1975.