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Purley schoolboy who reached for the sky in Battle of Britain

Posted on November 5, 2023 by insidecroydon

SUNDAY SUPPLEMENT: The Minster archives are full of accounts of those who gave their lives in the world wars. DAVID MORGAN recounts the story of one, a fighter pilot who just might have been memorialised in a famous movie While … Continue reading →

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Posted in Croydon Minster, David Morgan, History | Tagged 302 (Polish) Squadron, A Matter of Life and Death, Battle of Britain, CODA, David Niven, Dunkirk, Kempton Park, Peter Carter, RAF, Remembrance Day, Winston Churchill | 1 Comment
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