Nigel Norman, 2nd Baronet

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Sir Henry Nigel St. Valery Norman, 2nd Baronet ( May 21, 1897 - May 19, 1943 ) was a British businessman and military aviator.

He was the eldest son of Sir Henry Norman, 1st Baronet from his first marriage to the writer Menie Muriel Dowie.

He was educated at Winchester College . Im served in World War I and was Mentioned in dispatches . After the war he studied at Trinity College of Cambridge University , which he in 1921 as a Bachelor of Arts graduated.

He became chairman of the airline Airwork Ltd. and later director of Misr-Airwork SAE in Cairo .

He was inducted into the Order of the British Empire (CBE) as Commander . On the death of his father on June 4, 1939, he inherited the title of Baronet , Honeyhanger in the Parish of Shottermill in the County of Surrey . He served in the Royal Auxiliary Air Force during World War II and rose to the rank of Air Commodore . He was involved in the development of airborne troops in close cooperation with the British Army. He coordinated raids with airborne troops on Italy and France. In May 1943 he was transferred to a unit in North Africa as the new commander in preparation for Operation Husky . The plane that was supposed to bring him there from England, a Lockheed Hudson IIIA FH168 , had to make an emergency landing shortly after take-off from the Royal Air Force base at St. Eval in Cornwall due to an engine failure and caught fire on landing. Norman was killed in the accident.

From his 1926 marriage with Patricia Moyra Annesley, he had three sons, including his heir Mark Annesley Norman (1927-2013).

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  1. ↑ BBC: WW2 People's War
predecessor Office successor
Henry Norman Baronet (of Honeyhanger)
1939-1943 		Mark Norman
personal data
SURNAME Norman, Nigel, 2nd Baronet
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Norman, Sir Henry Nigel St. Valery, 2nd Baronet
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British entrepreneur and military aviator
DATE OF BIRTH May 21, 1897
DATE OF DEATH May 19, 1943