{"id":8460,"date":"2020-07-01T09:46:41","date_gmt":"2020-07-01T08:46:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/?p=8460"},"modified":"2026-03-23T08:20:42","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T07:20:42","slug":"sir-douglas-bader-1981","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/sir-douglas-bader-1981\/","title":{"rendered":"Sir Douglas Bader: 1981"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/files\/2026\/03\/flying-colours-book-copy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"185\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-12406\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/files\/2026\/03\/flying-colours-book-copy-185x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>In December 1981 former RAF pilot Sir Douglas Bader visited Imperial College Bookshop to promote and sign copies of a new publication. The book was called Flying Colours and was written by Laddie Lucas. Sir Douglas took part in the Battle of Britain, was imprisoned at <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Oflag_IV-C\">Colditz Castle<\/a> and his life was chronicled in the film <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Reach_for_the_Sky\">Reach for the Sky<\/a>.\u00a0 Surrounded by copies of the book, STOIC&#8217;s Lawerence Windley managed to get a few words with him.<\/p>\n<p>Within a year of this video, in September 1982, he had died.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sir Douglas Bader - December 1981\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6UQgm39HNrQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Colin Grimshaw July 2020<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[subscribe2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In December 1981 former RAF pilot Sir Douglas Bader visited Imperial College Bookshop to promote and sign copies of a new book. STOIC were there to report&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3921,79,53,80,82],"tags":[212,89],"class_list":["post-8460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-update","category-campus","category-events","category-people","category-student-life","tag-stoic","tag-students"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8460"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12416,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8460\/revisions\/12416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}