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![]() ![]() Group Captain Hugh Verity DSO* DFC (deceased) Died : 2001 *Signature Value : £35 Editions signed : Clipped Signature. | Verity, Hugh (Group Captain Hugh Verity DSO* DFC (deceased)) Learning to fly in the Oxford University Air Squadron in 1938, Hugh Verity flew Beaufighters in Coastal Command and night fighter squadrons before volunteering to join 161 (Special Duties) Sqn. In 1943 he commanded this squadrons Lysander flight and became the Squadron Commander. On his 29 successful pick ups, of which 24 were in Lysanders, he brought back to England a total of 93 people from the meadows of occupied France, lit only by pocket torches. He died in 2001. |
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