A Salute to One of 'the Few'

✍ Scribed by Simon St. John Beer

• Publisher: Pen & Sword Books
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 615 KB
• Edition: 6
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 1473817927

✦ Synopsis

A poignant biography of a pilot who made the ultimate sacrifice in World War II.

In a quiet churchyard is the grave of an airman who lost his life fighting in the skies over southern England in October 1940. The author happened to come across this grave, and after some initial inquiries discovered that nobody in the town was aware that this Battle of Britain pilot lay at rest in their parish.

Determined to discover more about the short life of this hero, he undertook several years of research to craft this biography. Peter Cape Beauchamp St. John joined the RAF in November 1937 on a four-year short service commission at the age of twenty. In July 1938 he was posted to No. 87 Squadron, being equipped with the then-new Hawker Hurricane fighter. After war had been declared, the Squadron was posted to France in support of the British Expeditionary Force, becoming operational on September 10, 1939. In March 1940 he was transferred to 501 Squadron in...