Members of the Royal Family have led tributes after the last surviving Battle of Britain pilot, John ‘Paddy’ Hemingway, passed away peacefully on March 17, 2025, at the age of 105.  

John Hemingway joined the RAF as a teenager and was part of Prime Minster Winston Churchill’s ‘Few’ to whom the British nation became indebted for defending the country’s skies in 1940 from the German Luftwaffe during World War II.  

Beholden to the efforts and heroism of the Battle of Britain pilots, in August 1940, Churchill famously declared: “Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.”   

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