[1] He joined the Royal Flying Corps in 1917 and served as a Bristol Fighter pilot on the western front with 10 Squadron in the last eleven months of the war.

[3] On 27 January a Kabul-bound Vickers Victoria, piloted by Ivelaw-Chapman, was forced to make an emergency landing in the mountainous Surobi District.

[2] In June 1940 he was promoted to group captain and was appointed station commander at RAF Linton-on-Ouse, a No.

[2] Because of his experience and knowledge Churchill ordered the French resistance to do all they could to help him return to England, he was to be killed if he was in danger of being captured by the Germans.

Churchill's fear was unfounded as the Germans did not realise his importance and he was treated as an ordinary prisoner of war.