Pilot Officer N Vintcent
Neville Vintcent
Named in the book
- Rank
- Pilot Officer
- Honours
- DFC
- In the book
- Pages 29
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.