Stirling Effort

Despite losing an eye ‘Ron’ Middleton flew his badly damaged Stirling bomber back from Italy to ensure his crewmates could bale out over friendly territory.

Rawdon Hume Middleton – known to everybody as ‘Ron’ – was the great-nephew of the colonial explorer Hamilton Hume and was born in Waverley, Sydney, Australia on July 22, 1916.

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