Battle of Barking Creek, 67 years ago today

The attacking Spitfire’s I believe reacted and responded to Sailor Malan’s cry of ‘Tally Ho!’ and went for it.

Sticking me neck on the chopping block (& without web-searching, or resorting to any books) my beer-addled memory recalls that a ‘Johnny Freeborne’ (of 74 Sqdn) was one of the pilots responsible for K/O the 56 Sqdn Hurricane.

Small irony in that the Havering council named a (rather small) road after him….. ‘Freebourne Gdns’, that runs off of (the considerably larger) ‘Mungo Park Rd’, near the old airfield that I used to live next to.

… the first fighter pilot to be killed in WWII …

Really?

I wonder how on Earth someone could mistake a Hurricane for an ME109

Try watching the movie most admired by this forum. BoB used Buchons as Hurricane lookalikes.

And of course there’s the interesting new tale of Douglas Bader …

Montague Hulton-Harrop

Brian.

Good post – the first casualty desrves to be remembered, as they all do.

Can anybody put a name to him?

Moggy

Blitz Then & Now Vol 1

I’ve got to write a whole report on it for college 😀 😀 😀 Mark 😀

See my in depth article in Blitz Then & Now Volume 1. Also Tigers Tale by Bob Cossey. Andy Saunders

Funny, I was gonna post a thread on this earlier, but the boss came in so had to make it look as though I was working! :rolleyes:

I’ve got to write a whole report on it for college 😀 😀 😀 Mark 😀

The attacking Spitfire’s I believe reacted and responded to Sailor Malan’s cry of ‘Tally Ho!’ and went for it. At the Court of Enquirey Malan denied calling Tally Ho, and was promoted. There is a good account in an autobiography and I can’t for the life of me recall the title or the author, but he was fuming 60 years later and questioned Malan’s integrity.

Andy.

I wonder how on Earth someone could mistake a Hurricane for an ME109

Still I salute the poor chap 🙂