Service No: 81372
Died: 10/08/1943
Age: 21
Remembered on Runnymede Memorial
Remembered on family memorial in Bangor cemetery
Known as "Tony", Harold Anthony Kidd May was born in 1922, the son of Harold Kidd May, M.C., and his wife Cicely Alice May (nee Ray)
Educated at Bangor Grammar School, Tony joined the Royal Air Force on outbreak of hostilities and was promoted to Flight Officer in September 1940 at the age of 19.
In August 1943, Flight-Lieutenant Antony Kidd May was "reported missing, presumed lost at sea on air operations."
Maurice Wilkins, former headmaster of Bangor Grammar, writing in the school's magazine in 1965, said:
Educated at Bangor Grammar School, Tony joined the Royal Air Force on outbreak of hostilities and was promoted to Flight Officer in September 1940 at the age of 19.
In August 1943, Flight-Lieutenant Antony Kidd May was "reported missing, presumed lost at sea on air operations."
Maurice Wilkins, former headmaster of Bangor Grammar, writing in the school's magazine in 1965, said:
"Tony Kidd-May was in our junior school for some years — a fair curly-haired attractive and handsome boy with pleasant manners and highly intelligent. He showed excellent all-round promise and took a leading part in the Dramatic Society. I have a photograph which used to hang in the old H Room (now a lab.), showing Tony gesticulating on the bow of a ship and addressing his crew of ruffianly pirates just below — prominent among them, cheering with arms upraised, George Morrison, now internationally renowned in Film Research and Documentaries of the Irish revolutionary years of 40 to 60 years ago."
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