Richard Absolon was born in England, but in 1972 his family moved to New Zealand, taking up farming in Marton. In 1980, aged 18, he returned to Britain and joined the army, where after six months ...

New Zealand contributed an out-sized number of pilots in the Battle of Britain and maintained a decent air force during WW2 (when it operated ... funded New Zealand Army. The decision was somewhat ...

He was 18 years old when he joined the Royal New Zealand Air Force in 1945, just before WWII ended in the Pacific ... His next adventure was the United States Army. After months of training ...