Group Captain John ‘Paddy’ Hemingway, the last Battle of Britain veteran, passed away on St Patrick’s Day at a Dublin nursing home. The 105-year-old Dubliner was shot down four times by the Nazis during the Second World War and always put his survival down to being a “very lucky Irishman”. Mr Hemingway joined the British Royal Air Force in 1938 and trained as a fighter pilot, meaning when the war broke out he was destined to serve on the frontline. Advertisement Very sad to hear of the passing of Group Captain John ‘Paddy’ Hemingway, the last known Battle of Britain...