| Entry Text: | COOPER-EVANS, Michael. Rob Walker. 272p., illus., index. Richmond: Hazelton Publishing, 1993. ISBN: 1874557357.
With a private income derived from Walker's whisky, Rob Walker led a life of gilded youth and was already well-known in motor racing circles before the war. It is his love of motor racing that is the main theme of this biography. He volunteered for the FAA in December 1939 and his training and various scrapes and escapades are recalled with relish. In 1941 he was posted to the Middle East and flew from Dekheila in support of Tobruk in most operational types. Next came a variety of postings which are fitfully described, towing drogue targets for the RN at Haifa, as FDO on the cruiser Cleopatra until her sinking and as Hangar Control Officer on the carrier Victorious. He served with her in the Far East until war's end. |
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