John “Paddy” Hemingway, the last surviving pilot who flew during the Battle of Britain, has died at the age of 105.

Group Captain John “Paddy” Hemingway, who has died aged 105, was the last surviving pilot of “The Few”, the men of Fighter Command who fought in the Battle of Britain. During his wartime career as a fighter pilot,

A fighter pilot in a vastly outnumbered Royal Air Force — one of the “few” hailed by Churchill — he took to the skies to help stave off a Nazi land invasion of Britain.