LEGLESS PILOT
GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP (10.15 a.m.) LONDON, April 4. The legless pilot, Wing Commander D. R. S. Bader, D.F.C. and bar. has entered for the amateur golf championship on April 30 with a
handicap of four, the limit for the event.
Wing - Commander Bader lost both his legs about 10 years ago when lie crashed while rehearsing for a Hendon air pageant. Such was his enthusiasm to continue flying that, on the outbreak of war —by which time he had accus-
lomcd himself so well to the use of Wing-Commander I).artificial limbs that It s. Under he was proficient in many sports—he persuaded a medical board to allow him to undergo a lest at the Central Flying School. This test he passed with distinction. As a pilot. Wing-Commander Bader had a distinguished career in the early stages of the war. He was shot down over the Continent and taken a prisoner if wai*
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 21989, 5 April 1946, Page 3
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153LEGLESS PILOT Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 21989, 5 April 1946, Page 3
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