Hugh Verity
Hugh Verity, DSO amp Bar, DFC, Legion of Honour , Croix de Guerre 19391945 France, was an English Royal Air Force fighter pilot and later a special duties squadron pilot working with Special Operations Executive landing in occupied France to insert and extract agents. He was decorated for gallantry five times.
Verity was born in Jamaica the son of Dorothy and the Reverend George Beresford Verity. Prewar he was a frequent traveler by sea between England, Kingston, Jamaica, Bermuda and South America where he spent some time and learned to speak Spanish. He was educated at Cheltenham College and Queens College, Oxford where he joined Oxford University Air Squadron. After graduation he taught in schools in Northern Ireland. He joined the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve and was commissioned pilot officer onNovember 1938.
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