Douglas Bader

Sir Douglas Bader, CBE, DSO, Bar DFC, a portrait sculpture bust.

Douglas Robert Stuart Bader 1910-1982.

One of Britain’s greatest fighter pilot `aces` of the second world war, even though he lost both his legs in a pre-war flying accident, he controlled the skies with his Spitfire and became more than an handful for the Germans, whether in the sky or on the ground as a prisoner.

25 cm tall.