Monday, November 26, 2012

From Chic Silber #4



 Digger Pugh - 1960 Rolls Royce Silver Cloud II

Posted by Buckles at 11/26/2012 05:49:00 AM

1 comments:

Chic Silber said...


Digger, whose Australian slang
name stuck with him for most of
his life, was born John Wallace
Llewelyn Pugh in Northampton.
He emigrated with his family to
Australia at an early age, and
became a naturalised Australian.
He enlisting in the Army as a
teenager. His date of birth was
August 11, 1902. He was to become
a flying ace, gold miner, boxer,
wrestler, motor car racer, dirt
track rider, trick roller skater,
trampolinist, acrobat, and a
circus celebrity in his own time.
He enlisted in the Australian Army
at the age of sixteen, serving in
the Australian Imperial Forces,
during the First World War,
afterwards obtaining a commission
in the Royal Air Force, and being
decorated as a Flight Lieutenant,
becoming one of Britain's 'flying
aces' during the Second World War.
He was "our" Johnny Pugh's father.

26 November, 2012 11:12

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