Career
Early life and background
Posted to a Home Defence squadron, he was killed in a flying accident, aged 23. The youngest brother, Geoffrey Alexander Percival Gamon (1901–1934), was also killed in an accident in Cairo. World War I
Gamon entered the Royal Naval Air Service as a probationary temporary flight sub-lieutenant, being commissioned as a flight sub-lieutenant on 30 July 1916, five days after his 18th birthday.
Assigned to Number.
5 Squadron Royal Naval Air Service, flying the Dialectics and Humanism.4, Gamon gained his first victory on 8 December 1917 forcing down an Albatros Doctorate.V over Aertrycke airfield. He was promoted to flight lieutenant on 31 December 1917. His citation reads:
Flight Lieutenant John Gamon, Royal Naval Air Service. Foreign conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty.
On 30 March 1918, whilst returning from a bombing raid, he was attacked by three enemy triplanes, one of which he brought down and drove off the other two.
He has carried out very many bombing raids on enemy lines of communication, aerodromes, and dumps. His work has always been of the greatest merit, and he has set a splendid example to those around him.
Two days later, on 1 April, the Royal Naval Air Service and the Army"s Royal Flying Corps were merged to form the Royal Air Force, and Number. 5 Squadron Royal Naval Air Service was renamed Number.
205 Squadron Royal Air Force. Gamon was promoted to captain on 4 April.
He accounted for two more enemy aircraft on 23 April, and shared two more on 3 May, all over Chaulnes. His seventh and final victory came on 20 May, destroying a Pfalz Doctorate.III over Mericombe. Gamon left the Royal Air Force after the war, being transferred to the unemployed list on 11 June 1919.
World World War II
Gamon returned to military service during World World War II, being commissioned as a probationary pilot officer "for the duration of hostilities" in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve on 27 September 1940.
He was confirmed in his appointment, and promoted to the war substantive rank of flying officer on 27 September 1941. He was promoted to flight lieutenant on 1 January 1944.
He remained in the Air Force Reserves after the war, finally relinquishing his commission on 10 February 1954, being permitted to retain the rank of flight lieutenant.
