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href="/wiki/Distinguished_Flying_Cross_(United_Kingdom)" title="Distinguished Flying Cross (United Kingdom)">Distinguished Flying Cross</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Air_Efficiency_Award" title="Air Efficiency Award">Air Efficiency Award</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><a href="/wiki/Group_Captain" class="mw-redirect" title="Group Captain">Group Captain</a> <b>John Allman Hemingway</b>, <a href="/wiki/Distinguished_Flying_Cross_(United_Kingdom)" title="Distinguished Flying Cross (United Kingdom)">DFC</a>, <a href="/wiki/Air_Efficiency_Award" title="Air Efficiency Award">AE</a> (17 July 1919 – 17 March 2025), known as <b>Paddy Hemingway</b>, was an Irish fighter pilot who served in the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Air_Force" title="Royal Air Force">Royal Air Force</a> during the <a href="/wiki/Second_World_War" class="mw-redirect" title="Second World War">Second World War</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Dunkirk" title="Battle of Dunkirk">Battle of Dunkirk</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Britain" title="Battle of Britain">Battle of Britain</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Allied_invasion_of_Italy" title="Allied invasion of Italy">Allied invasion of Italy</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Invasion_of_Normandy" class="mw-redirect" title="Invasion of Normandy">Invasion of Normandy</a>. He was shot down four times during the war. Hemingway was the last surviving <a href="/wiki/The_Few" title="The Few">airman of the Battle of Britain</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life">Early life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Hemingway_(RAF_officer)&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Hemingway was born in <a href="/wiki/Dublin" title="Dublin">Dublin</a> on 17 July 1919. His family were members of the <a href="/wiki/Church_of_Ireland" title="Church of Ireland">Church of Ireland</a>, a church in the <a href="/wiki/Anglican_Communion" title="Anglican Communion">Anglican Communion</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He attended <a href="/wiki/St_Patrick%27s_Cathedral,_Dublin" title="St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin">St. Patrick's Cathedral Choir School</a> and <a href="/wiki/St_Andrew%27s_College,_Dublin" title="St Andrew's College, Dublin">St Andrew's College, Dublin</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:2_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="RAF_career">RAF career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Hemingway_(RAF_officer)&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: RAF career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Hemingway was accepted to serve in the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Air_Force" title="Royal Air Force">Royal Air Force</a> and was granted a short-service commission on 7 March 1938.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In January 1939, Hemingway began training in <a href="/wiki/Brough,_East_Riding_of_Yorkshire" title="Brough, East Riding of Yorkshire">Brough, East Riding of Yorkshire</a>, in England.<sup id="cite_ref-:2_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On 7 March 1939, he was appointed in service as a <a href="/wiki/Pilot_officer" title="Pilot officer">pilot officer</a>. By early 1940, following the outbreak of the <a href="/wiki/Second_World_War" class="mw-redirect" title="Second World War">Second World War</a>, he was flying <a href="/wiki/Hawker_Hurricane" title="Hawker Hurricane">Hurricanes</a><sup id="cite_ref-obit_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-obit-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> with <a href="/wiki/No._85_Squadron_RAF" title="No. 85 Squadron RAF">No. 85 Squadron RAF</a> in France, destroying a <a href="/wiki/Heinkel_He_111" title="Heinkel He 111">Heinkel He 111</a> on 10 May. The following day, Hemingway destroyed a <a href="/wiki/Dornier_Do_17" title="Dornier Do 17">Do 17</a> and was forced to make a landing near <a href="/wiki/Maastricht" title="Maastricht">Maastricht</a> after his plane was damaged. By 15 May, the <a href="/wiki/British_Army" title="British Army">British Army</a> had brought him to Lille-Seclin and he returned to England two days later.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> During the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Dunkirk" title="Battle of Dunkirk">Battle of Dunkirk</a> he flew supporting missions over the <a href="/wiki/English_Channel" title="English Channel">English Channel</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:2_4-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Hemingway initially served in England with <a href="/wiki/No._253_Squadron_RAF" title="No. 253 Squadron RAF">No. 253 Squadron RAF</a> before returning to No. 85 Squadron on 15 June 1940. Hemingway fought in the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Britain" title="Battle of Britain">Battle of Britain</a>, waged from July to October 1940. His Hurricane was damaged on 18 August while over the <a href="/wiki/Thames_Estuary" title="Thames Estuary">Thames Estuary</a>, and he was forced to bail out. He was again shot down over <a href="/wiki/Eastchurch" title="Eastchurch">Eastchurch</a> on 26 August;<sup id="cite_ref-:0_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:1_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> making Hemingway 85 Squadron's first official combat victim over Britain.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Five days later he damaged a <a href="/wiki/Messerschmitt_Bf_109" title="Messerschmitt Bf 109">Bf 109</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_7-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:1_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On 3 September 1940, he was promoted to <a href="/wiki/Flying_officer" title="Flying officer">flying officer</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and on 22 September made a <a href="/wiki/Forced_landing" title="Forced landing">forced landing</a> due to poor weather near <a href="/wiki/Church_Fenton" title="Church Fenton">Church Fenton</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_7-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:1_9-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1941, 85 Squadron converted to <a href="/wiki/Havoc_II" class="mw-redirect" title="Havoc II">Havoc II</a> night-fighters. Hemingway was flying one of these on 13 May 1941 when its instruments failed in bad weather. He bailed out at low altitude, trying to avoid the tail which made this difficult, but his right hand hit the tail, breaking two fingers. He was able to pull his ripcord with the other hand but the parachute failed to open fully. His fall was broken by a tree and landing in a <a href="/wiki/Midden" title="Midden">midden</a> and so he survived with injured ankles. He was then <a href="/wiki/Mentioned_in_dispatches" title="Mentioned in dispatches">mentioned in dispatches</a> and awarded the <a href="/wiki/Distinguished_Flying_Cross_(United_Kingdom)" title="Distinguished Flying Cross (United Kingdom)">Distinguished Flying Cross</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FP_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FP-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Exhausted, Hemingway was given generally light duties for several months.<sup id="cite_ref-:2_4-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On 7 July 1941, he began serving with <a href="/wiki/No._1452_Flight_RAF" title="No. 1452 Flight RAF">No. 1452 Flight RAF</a> at <a href="/wiki/West_Malling" title="West Malling">West Malling</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_7-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On 1 January 1944, he was made a temporary <a href="/wiki/Squadron_leader" title="Squadron leader">squadron leader</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He served as an <a href="/wiki/Air_traffic_controller" title="Air traffic controller">air traffic controller</a> during the <a href="/wiki/Invasion_of_Normandy" class="mw-redirect" title="Invasion of Normandy">Invasion of Normandy</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:2_4-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> From April to December 1945 he commanded <a href="/wiki/No._43_Squadron_RAF" title="No. 43 Squadron RAF">No. 43 Squadron RAF</a>, flying <a href="/wiki/Spitfire" class="mw-redirect" title="Spitfire">Spitfires</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_7-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The squadron served in Italy, and Hemingway was shot down for a fourth time.<sup id="cite_ref-:2_4-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>With the Second World War over, Hemingway remained in the RAF and was posted to the Middle East. He was promoted to <a href="/wiki/Flight_lieutenant" title="Flight lieutenant">flight lieutenant</a> on 23 January 1946,<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and on 6 March 1946 was made a war substantive squadron leader.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On 15 July 1948, Hemingway was promoted to squadron leader,<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and on 1 July 1954 to <a href="/wiki/Wing_commander_(rank)" class="mw-redirect" title="Wing commander (rank)">wing commander</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Hemingway later served as station commander of <a href="/wiki/RAF_Leconfield" title="RAF Leconfield">RAF Leconfield</a>, was staff officer at <a href="/wiki/NATO" title="NATO">NATO</a> in France, and finally served in the <a href="/wiki/Air_Ministry" title="Air Ministry">Air Ministry</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:2_4-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Promoted to <a href="/wiki/Group_captain" title="Group captain">group captain</a> on 1 January 1969,<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> he retired on 12 September.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_7-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life_and_death">Personal life and death</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Hemingway_(RAF_officer)&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Personal life and death"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Hemingway married Bridget and had three children. Bridget died in 1998. He lived in Canada for a few years, but returned to Ireland in 2011.<sup id="cite_ref-:2_4-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As of July 2018, he was one of the nine surviving members of <a href="/wiki/The_Few" title="The Few">The Few</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> By 2019, when he <a href="/wiki/Centenarian" title="Centenarian">turned 100</a>, he was living in a nursing home near Dublin.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_9-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> When <a href="/wiki/William_Clark_(RAF_pilot)" class="mw-redirect" title="William Clark (RAF pilot)">William Clark</a> died in May 2020, Hemingway became the last surviving airman of the Battle of Britain.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2024, Hemingway unveiled a series of five portraits by artist <a href="/wiki/Dan_Llywelyn_Hall" title="Dan Llywelyn Hall">Dan Llywelyn Hall</a>, entitled <i>The Last of the Few,</i> at the <a href="/wiki/Embassy_of_the_United_Kingdom,_Dublin" title="Embassy of the United Kingdom, Dublin">British Embassy in Dublin</a>, marking his 105th birthday.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In June 2024, Hemingway met with the daughter of the young girl who he claimed had saved him from Germans after he was shot down near the city of <a href="/wiki/Ferrara" title="Ferrara">Ferrara</a>, Italy, in 1945. The meeting in Dublin came about after Hemingway and his family made an appeal to meet the girl who had hidden him and saved his life.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Hemingway died on 17 March 2025, aged 105.<sup id="cite_ref-obit_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-obit-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Royal Air Force called it "the end of an era", with British Prime Minister <a href="/wiki/Keir_Starmer" title="Keir Starmer">Keir Starmer</a> and the <a href="/wiki/William,_Prince_of_Wales" title="William, Prince of Wales">Prince of Wales</a> paying homage.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Coldstream_Guards" title="Coldstream Guards">Coldstream Guards</a> honoured him with music outside Buckingham Palace.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Hemingway_(RAF_officer)&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Reinhard_Hardegen" title="Reinhard Hardegen">Reinhard Hardegen</a>, last surviving German <a href="/wiki/U-boat" title="U-boat">U-boat</a> commander, also died at 105</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">1 October</span> 2020</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Telegraph&rft.atitle=The+only+surviving+pilot+of+the+Battle+of+Britain+on+being+the+very+last+of+The+Few&rft.date=2020-07-10&rft.issn=0307-1235&rft.aulast=Shute&rft.aufirst=Joe&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.telegraph.co.uk%2Fmen%2Fthinking-man%2Fsurviving-pilot-battle-britain-last%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJohn+Hemingway+%28RAF+officer%29" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/i-was-shot-down-four-times-and-survived-im-one-of-the-lucky-ones-irishman-101-who-is-last-surviving-pilot-from-battle-of-britain-39532079.html">"<span class="cs1-kern-left"></span>'I was shot down four times and survived, I'm one of the lucky ones' − Irishman (101) who is last surviving pilot from Battle of Britain"</a>. <i>Irish Independent</i>. 15 September 2020<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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