Dennis Frederick John (Dan) GODFREY DFC

GODFREY, Dennis Frederick John

Service Number: 422853
Enlisted: 26 May 1942
Last Rank: Flying Officer
Last Unit: No. 186 Squadron (RAF)
Born: Tooting, England, 29 March 1924
Home Town: Sydney, City of Sydney, New South Wales
Schooling: Randwick High School, New South Wales, Australia
Occupation: Airline Pilot
Died: Sutherland Shire, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 6 September 2019, aged 95 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery: Woronora Memorial Park, Sutherland, New South Wales
Presbyterian Monumental Section B, Grave 040 (Ashes)
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Biography contributed by Paul Godfrey

Dennis self-taught as a bricklayer, concreter, carpenter, landscaper, boat-builder, and administrator. While his 3 sons were sailing his hand-built dinghies, Dennis was progressing through command and management positions with TAA including three years in New Guinea in the mid-1960s. He was Senior Regional Captain, Sydney in the 1970s retiring as a Boeing 727 Captain in 1981 aged 57, having flown 33 years and 20,000 hours for TAA.

Dennis loved flying