South Africa’s VC

The only South African pilot to receive a VC during World War Two was Ted Swales; this is the story of how he sacrificed himself to save his men

Edwin ‘Ted’ Essery Swales was born into a farming family in Inanda, Natal, South Africa on July 3, 1915 but lost his father to influenza when he was just three years of age.

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