A SECOND World War fighter pilot – and oldest surviving member of The Few – had fulfilled his wish to see the Battle of Britain Museum built in Stanmore before he died.
Retired Flight Lieutenant William Walker, who was 99 when he died on Sunday following a stroke, was at the forefront of the push to ensure a museum was built as part of the conversion of former RAF Bentley Priory, which served as the wartime home of Fighter Command.
The Spitfire pilot and poet, who was born in Hampstead, north-west London, and lived in South Kensington, was present at a ceremony at the mansion house on September 8 to mark the return to the grounds of a replica Spitfire and a replica Hurricane.
