All,
If you click here you will get the BBC obituary for Wing Commander Paul Farnes, who died this week aged 101.
Farnes, a Hurricane pilot, was the last surviving ace, an accolade referring to those who brought down at least five enemy planes. He was awarded the Distinguished Flying Medal, the highest honour in the air force for non-officers.
It is thought there are two other Battle of Britain pilots still alive. Neither were well enough in November to attend the annual memorial service which commemorates the pilots who fought in the war. The group are known as ‘the few’ after the famous line Winston Churchill’s speech: “Never was so much owed by so many to so few.”
Mr Kydd.
