Sir Barrie Heath, DFC, AE was a World War II Royal Air Force Spitfire pilot who fought in the Battle of Britain, and was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross. After the war he had a successful career in industry, rising to become chairman of the industrial conglomerate GKN. In 1978 he received a knighthood for services to export.
Heath was born in Kings Norton, Warwickshire onSeptember 1916. His older brother Grahame was a pilot in the Royal Flying Corps and was killed in action in World War I.
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