serviceyears branch commands death_place death_date birth_place allegiance unit battles birth_date rank article_title name
1915 -- 1919 , 1941 -- 1945 22px royal australian air force no. -- 1945 -rrb- 2 wing , air training corps -lrb- 1941 killara , new south wales 2 october 1979 kurrajong , new south wales australia commonwealth of australia no. 3 squadron -lrb- 1918 -rrb- world war i world war ii 16 january 1892 wing commander nigel love
 nigel borland love
nigel love

wing commander nigel borland love -lrb- 16 january 1892 -- 2 october 1979 -rrb- was an australian aviator and flour miller .
love was born at south kurrajong to businessman john love and rebecca , `` née '' charley .
he attended sydney boys ' high school before working in his father 's importing business , plummer love & co. .
he visited britain 1912 -- 13 .
in 1915 he enlisted in the australian imperial force and was sent to the government flying school at richmond .
he was commissioned on 11 january 1917 and sent for further training in britain .
in january 1918 , having been promoted lieutenant , he served in france with the australian flying corps until june , when he was returned to england as an instructor .
love returned to sydney in 1919 and , in partnership with w. j. warneford and h. e. broadsmith , registered the australian aircraft and engineering co. ltd. , establishing premises at mascot .
love , the inaugural managing director , pursued a vigorous publicity campaign and in later supplied qantas with its first commercial aircraft .
the market was limited , however , and a lack of government assistance saw the company voluntarily liquidate in 1923 .
the commonwealth resumed ownership of their airfield , now kingsford smith airport , when the lease expired .
on 4 june 1924 love married phyllis eloise davey at strathfield methodist church , joining her father 's flour mill firm , edwin davey & sons .
he registered n. b. love pty ltd and built his own flour mill at enfield in january 1935 .
he was also a founding member of the new south wales flour millers ' trade council in 1942 .
in august 1941 , love was appointed wing commander in the royal australian air force and commanded a wing of the air training corps for boys between 16 and 18 .
he contested the 1943 federal election unsuccessfully , running as a liberal democrat in parkes .
from 1945 to 1946 he was president of the state branch of the air force association .
love took over edwin davey & sons in 1940 , acquiring a boggabri flour mill in 1944 .
he established millmaster feeds pty ltd in 1952 and in 1958 floated n. b. love industries ltd. , which was sold to george weston limited in 1962 , when love retired to the canberra region .
he died at killara in 1979 and was cremated .
