Deere, Alan C.

Nine lives / by Alan C. Deere ; with a foreword by Lord Dowding. - London : Hodder & Stoughton, 1959. - 262 pages, [10] pages of plates : illustrations, map, portraits ; 20 cm.

Includes index. Heritage copy at B DEE. Deere was born in Westport but his family moved to Wanganui where he grew up in a semi-rural environment and attended Marist Brothers' School and Wanganui Technical College.

Bagnall, D221

"Deals mainly with the Battle of Britain. One chapter on author's early years in New Zealand"--Bagnall.


Deere, Alan C.


Britain, Battle of, Great Britain, 1940.
World War, 1939-1945--Aerial operations, British.
World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, New Zealand.
Fighter pilots--Great Britain.


Wanganui (N.Z.)--Biography.