Ivan Douglas (Doug) GREGORY DFC

Ivan Douglas (Doug) Gregory, (Ex- Flying Officer 172248 Royal Air Force (VR)). born January 13 1923, died April 12 2015 as the result of an hit and run accident.
Rest in Peace Doug. you will never be forgotten.

LONDON GAZETTE, 17 JUNE, 1947
ROYAL AIR FORCE VOLUNTEER RESERVE.
GENERAL DUTIES BRANCH.
Appointment to commission. As Flying Officers (in the reconstituted R.A.F.V.R.): Ivan Douglas GREGORY, D.F.C. (172248) and many others

Extract from Mail Online
A heroic World War Two pilot who survived almost 70 missions against the Germans and was still in the cockpit at the age of 90, is in hospital fighting for his life after being knocked down by a hit and run driver.

Doug Gregory, 92, is believed to have been making his normal trip to the shops when he was knocked down by a silver Nissan outside a petrol station in Blackfield in Hampshire.

The former RAF pilot, who still holds all his licences to fly, was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross after he survived 67 missions into Nazi-controlled Europe during the Second World War. He also survived a brain haemorrhage in 1947 and only retired from his job as a stunt pilot at the age of 90.

Extract from The Telegraph.
Ivan Douglas Gregory was born in Southampton on January 13 1923 and educated at Freemantle School. He left aged 14 to work in a solicitor’s office and joined the RAF as soon as he was 18. He was trained as a pilot in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) and after completing his initial pilot training, he returned to Britain to join up with Stephens to train as a night fighter crew.


Photograph credited to The Telegraph
Doug Gregory, pilot Officer who won a DFC flying night-fighter sorties and in his eighties became the oldest stunt pilot in Britain

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11568589/Doug-Gregory-pilot-obituary.html