Woodley, Berkshire
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Woodley is a town and civil parish in the Borough of Wokingham, in Berkshire, England. Woodley is 4 miles east of Reading and adjoined to Earley which is 2 miles to the west of the town and Woodley is
Shopping precinct, Crockhamwell Road
Former village school, Church Road, built 1873, now serves as church hall and office for adjoining St John the Evangelist's Church
Oakwood Centre, incorporating Alan Cornish Theatre
Church of St John the Evangelist, Church Road
Douglas Bader
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Group Captain Sir Douglas Robert Steuart Bader was a Royal Air Force flying ace during the Second World War, who achieved great success despite loss of the lower part of both his legs after a 1931 air
Woodley, Berkshire
…were used for basic training of RAF pilots. In the years before the war numerous aviators visited Woodley, including Charles Lindbergh and Amy Johnson; Douglas Bader lost his legs in a flying accident on the airfield in 1931. He was in the RAF and had been forbidden from doing low level stunts because of the danger…
Bader in 1955
Bader, Flt Lt Harry Day and Fg Off Geoffrey Stephenson during training for the 1932 Hendon airshow, with a Gloster Gamecock
Squadron Leader D R S Bader, DSO, DFC. (1940) by Eric Kennington,(Art.IWM ART LD 832)
Bader, commanding officer of No. 242 Squadron, sitting on his Hurricane at Duxford during the Battle of Britain in September 1940