Ernest Melville Charles Guest (1920-4 October 1943) was commissioned as Pilot Officer in the Royal Air Force on 9 October 1939[REF][REF] and eventually promoted to Flight Lieutenant on 9 October 1941 [REF].
John Desmond Thomas Guest (1920-21 November 1941), Melville's twin brother, turned down a Rhodes Scholarship at Trinity College, Oxford[REF] as the war broke out and enlisted in England instead,[REF] commissioned Second Lieutenant in the King's Royal Rifle Corps in June 1940 [REF].