- Introduction
- Squadron Leader Basil Frederick Gooch Darby, DFC, 111 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. Lived at 141 Tile Kiln Lane, Bexley, but attended Dartford Grammar School 1929-36. Died 8.3.45, aged 26, when his Spitfire blew up while attacking a factory in Migliarino, Italy. Buried in Argenta Gap War Cemetery, Italy, and commemorated on the Dartford Grammar School In Memoriam Panel.
