Douglas Bader
Group Captain Sir Douglas Robert Steuart Bader b d r CBE, DSO amp Bar, DFC amp Bar, FRAeS, DL was a Royal Air Force flying ace during the Second World War. He was credited withaerial victories, four shared victories, six probables, one shared probable andenemy aircraft damaged.
Bader was born onFebruary 1910 in St Johns Wood, London, the second son of Frederick Roberts Bader, a civil engineer, and his wife Jessie. His first two years were spent with relatives in the Isle of Man while his father, accompanied by Baders mother and older brother Frederick , returned to his work in India after the birth of his son. At the age of two, Bader joined his parents in India for a year however, when his father resigned from his job in 1913 the family moved back to London and settled in Kew. Baders father saw action in the First World War in the Royal Engineers, and was wounded in action in 1917. He remained in France after the war, where, having attained the rank of major, he died in 1922 of complications from those wounds in a hospital in SaintOmer, the same area where Bader would bail out and be captured in 1941.
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