Bill
"Willie" Strupp
1928 - 2008
Bradford
1939 - 1944
Bill "Willie" Strupp died
at his home in Toronto on May 13th 2008 at the age of eighty. Bill
arrived at KHS in 1939, the second of seven refugees to join
us from pre-war Germany. He was a Bradford boy who
showed academic promise.
He left The Hill in 1944 and,
after looking into several possibilities, settled for life
as a pilot in the RAF. In the Berlin Airlift he flew
Avro Yorks carrying coal into the beleagured city. He later
flew with 111 Squadron (The Black Arrows) - the first post
war RAF aerobatic team - leaving the service in the
late fifties. He then joined the Roche
group of drug companies
as a representative in Canada.
He regularly attended
annual re-unions at KHS up until 2003. The School and
the RAF were the two main interests of his life and he held
them both in high regard. He became very British, as is witnessed
by the anglicising of his first name from 'Willie' to William.
But he was known to us all as Bill.
He was excellant company, always ready to enjoy a laugh
and to talk of KHS and the RAF.
Bill "Willie" Strupp
