Name/Title
97/Kirkwood Crew: Kirkwood, DFCEntry/Object ID
2022.1.499Description
James Kirkwood, pilot, 97 Squadron - DFC investiturePhotograph Details
Type of Photograph
DigitalContext
Kirkwood's wife, Margaret, at Buckingham Palace with her father-in-law and her sister, 1945, after receiving the DFC on behalf of her dead husband; the medal is pinned to her jacket.
L-R: Margaret Kirkwood (nee Hay), James Kirkwood, and Nancy Hay.
The family are beautifully dressed. Margaret's mother (Martha Hay, nee Richmond) was a tailor who made the sisters' clothes, and the suit was created for James Kirkwood by Martha's brother who had a tailor's shop in Kilwinning, the Kirkwoods' home town.Collection
97 Squadron, PFF Medals & MIDs, PFF Relatives and Friends, YY: RPA DIGITAL ITEMSCategory
QAI: Personal photographs