Who is this one-armed Hurricane pilot?

Does anyone know who this pilot was, and which squadron he commanded? How did he lose his arm? And did he go back to fly operationally, which this photo seems to allude to?

http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=EP19420314.2.17.1&srpos=1&e=01-12-1941–12-1945–10–1-byDA—0squadron+mascot–

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By: Dave Homewood - 2nd August 2011 at 22:49

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By: Themightyelf - 2nd August 2011 at 13:05

”One Armed Mac”
Sqn Ldr James Maclachlan
By Brian Cull, Roland Symons – Grub Street (2003) – Hardback – 192 pages – ISBN 1904010466
-one of the books ‘out there’ documenting his explolts……..