LIFE and DEATH in the BATTLE of BRITAIN

The diaries of RAF Duxford’s station chaplain provide a memorable new perspective on the events of the summer of 1940 The Venerable Guy Mayfield, RAF Duxford’s station chaplain during the Battle of Britain. PIERS MAYFIELD VIA IWM Many of ‘the few’ remain with us only as headstones, engraved names or biographies compiled by researchers or descendants. They can bring us the basic facts, but cannot illuminate the inner-lives of those who fell long before they would ever have dreamed of