James Farrar

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Biography

Event: Fact 1. RAF Navigator, poet, author. Fact 2. Killed in action.

Note: James was flying in a Mosquito, a small twin engine bomber and the fastest aircraft prior to jets, when it crashed into the English Channel. It got too close to the attack of a German V-1 flying bomb it had been ordered to intercept and destroy. James died on July 27, 1944; he was not yet 21 years old. Two years after his death, his mother began to publish some of his work in the magazine The Adelphi. Henry Williamson, an accomplished author, read his writing and was immediately intrigued. In 1950, The Unreturning Spring was published, edited and prefaced by Henry Williamson. The book contained James’s diaries, poems, short stories and letters he wrote during the war.

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