William Clark

William Terence Montague Clark, (11 April 1919 – 7 May 2020) was an English nightfighter navigator/radar operator in the Royal Air Force (RAF) from 1938 to 1945. He was the penultimate surviving airman of the Battle of Britain.

Clark enlisted in the Auxiliary Air Force in 1938 joining No. 615 Squadron at Kenley in March 1938 as an aircrafthand, then trained to be an aircraft gunner in Hawker Hectors on Army cooperation duties. at Catterick on 12 July 1940, later training on radar as a radio observer, flying in Bristol Beaufighters in the Battle of Britain. Commissioned as a Pilot Officer in May 1942, Clark had reached the rank of Flight Lieutenant by the end of the war. Post-war, Clark joined the reconstituted Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve (RAFVR) in 1949 serving in the Fighter and Aircraft Control Branches before resigning his commission in 1954.

Clark died on 7 May 2020 at the age of 101, leaving John Hemingway as the last surviving member of The Few.