Pilot Officer 'Boy' Mould had entered the RAF as a boy entrant in 1933. A great athlete, he was selected for a cadetship at the RAF College, Cranwell, where he became a triple Blue at rugby, cricket and athletics. Having claimed the unit's first aerial victory, he added eight more victories over France, six of them during the blitzkrieg. He was killed in action over Malta as a Squadron Commander on 1 October 1941.
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Soldiers of the British 8th Army occupy Pachino during the Allied invasion of Sicily in 1943.  Pachino is a town and commune in the south-eastern tip of Sicily, Italy.
 


British soldiers under the Sicilian sun

Gas Identification officer wearing helmet with two diamonds identifying him, as he holds gas detection paper during gas attack preparations.