Ernest Melville Charles Guest

Career Shortly after he passed out of Cranwell, he returned home on leave to attend the wedding of his elder sister, Gwen, and a telegram addressed to him was included by mistake in the congratulatory telegrams read out at the reception. It read: "Return to England immediately and report to Air Ministry". He was posted to No. 206 Squadron RAF and flew a number of sorties over enemy territory. When Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands, along with Crown Princess Juliana and other members of the Dutch royal family fled to England in May 1940 aboard the British destroyer , Guest was in the air escort that accompanied her to safety.

He was promoted to Flying Officer on 9 October 1940 and then Flight Lieutenant on 9 October 1941.

In the meantime, he was posted to the Gambia in June 1941 with No. 200 Squadron RAF, which was formed from a section of No. 206 Squadron. Guest is commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial.

Honours As well as two Mentions in Despatches, he was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross in 1942:

Family Guest married Katherine Mary Hustler of Pannal, Yorkshire in Knaresborough in 1941. A few weeks after his death on 4 October 1943, she gave birth to their son, Melville, on 18 November.