Jeffery Watson - The Last Plane Out Of Berlin

Born in Queensland, he served as a pilot in World War 1, and over the next twenty years did everything from delivering mail in the Newfoundland to entering the world of aerial reconnaissance on behalf of MI6, making numerous spy flights over Germany and Italy.

For a time, he had the direct support Churchill, but fell out with the authorities because of his unorthodox style – which included accepting money to fly a business out of Paris as it fell…

He ran guns in India after partition, and led the high life – but in the end died bankrupt after oil exploration in Saudi Arabia went wrong.