Flying Officer IB Difford
Ivor Benson Difford
Battle of Britain
- Rank
- Flying Officer
- Squadron
- No 607 Squadron
- School
- Queen's College
- Fate
- Did not survive the war, 7 October 1940
- In the book
- Pages 31, 51, 65
From the book
Links of Long Standing
Several joined well before war was declared including amongst others, TH Archbell, AS Ainslie, I Bocock, CBE Burt-Andrews GL Cruickshanks, G Chater, IB Difford, FA Harte, GDL Haysom, CB Hull, GLB Hull, AG “Sailor” Malan, EJ Morris, MT Pattle, H Rosofsky, JF Roulston RN Selley, HWL Sheahan CR Taylor and FL Watson.
Against Unfavourable Odds
Thirty-year-old Flying Officer Ivor Benson Difford, educated at Queens College in the Eastern Cape commissioned in 1937, also lost his life that day after colliding with a No 607 Squadron Hurricane during a patrol 35, having joined the squadron five days earlier.