August 26th 1940

Gave dual to my first Polish pilot "George Sokolowski". We had an intake of 4 pilots and 4 observers in 3 Squadron. George was a dam nice fellow 33 years old, had been 5 years in the Foreign Legion, he was killed about six weeks later while night flying - for no apparent cause possibly suicide. After this we had Poles under training all of the time. Poles were very good fellows - inclined to optimism when asked about their flying hours, always said they understood when they didn't, but were very keen on flying. Pretty tiring to teach.