Education
He moved to Newark-on-Trent as a child and was educated at Newark Technical College.
He moved to Newark-on-Trent as a child and was educated at Newark Technical College.
He also received at Bisley in 1951. Gill was born on October 30, 1922 in Chesterfield, England. He trained as a pilot in the United States, he flew Hurricanes (with 279 Sqn) during the war and Mosquito FB.VIs (with 4 Sqn) in the immediate post-war period.
His Mosquito, TA 122, is being restored and will be displayed at the de Havilland Museum at London Colney.
He died on January 20, 2008. He was appointed Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire for his service in Aden during its evacuation in 1967.
After his retirement, he remained closely associated with the Royal Air Force, serving for many years as president of the Newark Branch of the Royal Air Forces Association and he was also closely linked to the Air Training Corps (air traffic controllers ), of which he was a member in his youth (with 47F Sqn at Grantham, when still an Air Defence Cadet Corps Squadron - forerunner of the air traffic controllers ). In 1979, he retired from the Royal Air Force.