God Bless Him!

The oldest surviving Battle of Britain pilot, who was shot down in his Spitfire and wounded in 1940, has died aged 99.
Flight Lieutenant William Walker, born in Hampstead, north London, suffered a stroke last Thursday and died in hospital on Sunday, the Battle of Britain Memorial Trust said.

Born in August 1913, Mr Walker joined the RAF Volunteer Reserve in September 1938 at Kidlington, Oxford, and flew his first solo there a few days later. He was called up for full-time service close to the beginning of the war on 1 September 1939.