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Sergeant Gerard Willington Forster ASHWIN (976524)
53 Squadron Royal Air Force Date of birth: 10th March 1908 Date of death: 4th February 1941 Killed in action aged 32 Commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial Panel 38
Gerard Willington Forster Ashwin was born at Abington, Hampshire on the 10th of March 1908 the only son of the Reverend Robert Forster Ashwin MA, a schoolmaster, and Lucy Maud (nee Box) Ashwin of Ashurst Rectory, Steyning in Sussex. He was educated at Magdalen College School, Brackley, where his father was a master, and at Lancing College where he was in Gibbs House from September 1921 to July 1927. He achieved his School Certificate in 1923 and his Higher Certificate in 1924. He won the Senior Sewell Prize for Mathematics in 1926. He was elected as Joint Editor of

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