Source: Leicestershire War Memorials Project.
John Hannah VC was the first RAF man to receive the VC, in September 1940 and was also, at the time the youngest VC ever. He was awarded the VC for saving his plane, which had been hit and was on fire. He managed to put out the fire and saved both his life and that of the pilot, the plane returned safely to base. John survived with injuries and later left the RAF and married and lived in Birstall, He died in 1947, age 25 and is buried in Birstall.
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Submitted by J. Coulson, 2015

Hannah contracted tuberculosis only a year later in mid-late 1941, brought on no doubt by his weakened condition following the severe burns he sustained during his Victoria Cross action. This necessitated his eventual discharge, with full disability pension, from the RAF in December 1942. However, unable thereafter to take up a full-time job, he initially took a job as a taxi driver (using a car his aunt had lent him) but due to increasing ill health he returned the car in 1943. He then found it increasingly difficult to support his wife and three small daughters, and his health ultimately gave out. He died on 7 June 1947 at Markfield Sanatorium in Leicester, where he had been lying for four months. He is buried in the churchyard of St James the Great Church, Church Hill, Birstall, north Leicester. His wife, Janet Hannah, is also interred there with her husband. An inscription to her reads "Loved and remembered always Janet Hannah Aged 83 years".

Hannah's headstone is inscribed: "Courageous Duty Done In Love, He Serves His Pilot Now Above." His Victoria Cross is displayed at the Royal Air Force Museum, Hendon, London.
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taken from Wikipedia website entry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hannah_(VC)