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Alistair Cormack, born in Aberdeen, Scotland, 1921. “My parents had a hair saloon, and were both hairdressers. My father died when I was 11, so it was hard growing up until I joined the RAF in 1940. By then, the war had begun and Churchill suggested Britain have a defence of our own and leave professional soldiers to do their jobs, rather than hang around in the air force. So there were a lot of new volunteer RAF regiments, and I was in one of them. We all wanted to join the Scottish regiment, but we weren’t allowed to do that so we had to make our own way”. (Photo and caption by Sasha Maslov)
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