Leopardstown Racecourse is an Irish horse-racing venue, located in Leopardstown, Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown, 8 kilometres (5 mi) south of the Dublin city centre. Like the majority of Irish courses, it hosts both National Hunt and Flat racing.
Heading for the start with Wicklow Mountains in background
The stand at Leopardstown
Hugh Verity, was a Royal Air Force fighter pilot and later a "special duties" squadron pilot working with the Special Operations Executive (SOE) during World War II. He landed many times at clandestine airfields in occupied France to insert and extract SOE agents. He was decorated for gallantry five times.
Hugh Verity – a late-wartime or postwar photograph
Beaufighter Mk IF (B-RO) of No. 29 Squadron.
Westland Lysander Mk III (SD), the type used for special missions into occupied France during World War II.
Jim McCairns, Hugh Verity, Percy Pickard, Peter Vaughan-Fowler and Bunny Rymills with Verity's Lysander in 1943.