I have been very remiss lately in not posting little tidbits re 'my' Battle of Britain boys. I have been chipped about this and thought I would make up for it by posting something not quite BoB but at least pertinent to the summer season...
In January 1939, when bushfires raged around Adelaide, Bill Millington braved record-breaking temperatures to fight the fires. They were among the worst in South Australia’s history, sweeping through hundreds of square miles of countryside, causing tens of thousands of pounds worth of damage. Within a week, the danger passed and the fundraising began. Bill attended a rover crew dance at the Goodwood Institute, where nine pounds were raised; went to a bushfire relief concert at Henley; and headed to a charity midget car meeting at Payneham Oval. Twelve months later he was freezing at 10 Flying Training School Tern Hill at Shropshire, and digging cars and Harvards out of the snow to keep warm.
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