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English: Francis Hugh Vowles (born Rugby, Warwickshire 18 September 1911 died Gloucester 2 May 1990) attended Cheltenham College, obtained a Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of London External System in 1937, and trained as a lawyer under his uncle Henry Hayes Vowles (junior) of H.H.Vowles and Company, Gloucester. FH Vowles married Elizabeth Langhorne BA (1911–1999). In 1943, Francis Vowles trained to become a Pilot Officer with the RAF at the 13th Initial Training Wing (C Flight, No. 3 Squadron). From 17–31 September 1943, he was at the 4 EFTS Brough Aerodrome, Brough, Yorkshire. Between 31 September 1943 and 27 November 1943, he travelled to Canada. There he was taught trainee pilots to fly the de Havilland Tiger Moth. He was based at the 35 EFTS at Neepawa from 27 September 1943 to 11 March 1944. From 11 March 1944 to 20 October 1944, he was based at the 17 Service Flying Training School, Souris, Manitoba. In Souris, he flew Anson II planes. From 9 April 1945 to 8 August 1945, he was based at the No 1333 Transport Support Conversion Unit, Leicester East. Here he flew Oxford and Dakota planes and undertook "radar flights".Francis Vowles went on to become a partner in Vowles, Jessop and Keen of Lorraine House, 45 Park Road, Gloucester, the house in which his Pearce grandparents had lived. He was Clerk to County Justices (Gloucester division). and a member of the Royal Air Force Association (Gloucester branch). As well as a full-time solicitor, he was also honorary legal adviser to the Gloucester Association of parish and town councils from 1936 to 1976. He and his wife lived at the Old Rectory, Whaddon, Gloucester. Before his death, they built and moved into a new, adjacent house ("New Hasbrook") which retained the original pond.