Edward Wolfe

Wing Commander Edward Chatham Wolfe, DFC (1911 – 1994) was a famed World War II Royal Air Force fighter pilot who flew during the Battle of Britain. Wolfe was born in Hong Kong on 11 Jun 1911, the son of the Hon E D C Wolfe, Inspector General of the Royal Hong Kong Police and Chief Officer of the Hong Kong Fire Brigade. He was educated at Grange School, Folkestone and Tonbridge School in Kent. Between 1929 and 1932, Wolfe worked as an apprentice with Merryweather and Sons (Fire-Engineers) at Greenwich, London, before working in the head office as a salesman and later as a fire prevention officer. Aged sixteen, Wolfe took a ten minute ‘joy-ride’ flight in a Vickers Virginia over Andover. This flight resolved his ambition to become a...