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I've often seen mentioned the isolated fact that Air Chief Marshall Hugh Dowding, leader of Fighter Command during the Battle of Britain, became, in retirement, an adherent to beliefs in many Fortean topics. The difficulty is that this fact is usually shorn of any detail or discussion as to precisely what he believed and why.
In an attempt to present a more rounded picture, I attach the section of Vincent Orange's (predominantly military) biography.
His belief in fairies, for instance, is made to sound as much 'metaphorical' as literal, and his refusal to dismiss accounts from children and common people is, perhaps, suprisingly open-minded for a member of the aristocracy, raised in Victorian England.
Anyway, I hope some of you find it interesting.
In an attempt to present a more rounded picture, I attach the section of Vincent Orange's (predominantly military) biography.
His belief in fairies, for instance, is made to sound as much 'metaphorical' as literal, and his refusal to dismiss accounts from children and common people is, perhaps, suprisingly open-minded for a member of the aristocracy, raised in Victorian England.
Anyway, I hope some of you find it interesting.
