Bill Kirkness DFM
As an RAF wireless operator/air gunner, the late Bill ‘Enoch’ Kirkness DFM of Horsforth, West Yorkshire, flew seventy-two operations from India on two tours: the first in a B-24 Liberator bombing role and the second primarily on air-sea rescue assignments aboard Catalinas and Liberators. Post-war, he owned a signwriting business and a hobby shop, Models and Militaria, and he was a ham radio enthusiast.