Battle of Britain London Monument – F/O I B D E Hay 
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Ian Bruce David Erroll Hay was born in Johannesburg, South Africa on 4th June 1916. He attended Rugby School from 1930 to 1933. He obtained his ‘A’ License in 1934 and joined the Cambridge University Air Squadron in 1937, when he was at Trinity Hall reading Mechanical Sciences.
Commissioned in the RAFVR in September 1938, Hay was called up on 1st September 1939. He was posted to 6 FTS Little Rissington in October and, with his training completed, he joined 611 Squadron at Digby in April 1940, serving with it throughout the Battle of Britain.
Hay was posted away in early 1941 and became Sector Controller at Digby and later at Coltishall, Tangmere, Exeter and other stations.
He was invalided out of the RAF in 1945 as a Wing Commander.
He returned to South Africa, where he became a director of Miles Aircraft, of Rand Mines 1950-52 and the Central Mining and Investment Corporation from 1952.
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