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Shot down in 1941, when flying a wounded colleague to Athens, and badly burnt, he was rescued and led to safety by sympathetic Greeks.
In 1942 when flying over Libya, he came under fire and although wounded and despite damage to his Hurricane, managed to make a forced landing in a sandstorm some two miles short of the nearby RAF base at El Adem. He was awarded the DFC for ´demonstrating courage and determination in action over an extended period´.
He finished the war as a Wing commander, working at the RAF staff College and then the Air Ministry before returning to the Colonial Service.