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Sydney Pigden
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'''Sydney Charles Pigden''' (25 April 1922 27 December 2017) was a [[Royal Air Force]] fighter pilot and PE Teacher.
==Career==
Pidgen survived well over 100 ground-attack sorties with 164 'Argentine-British' Squadron, when flying Hawker Hurricane and Typhoon rocket-armed aircraft against heavily defended enemy ground targets.
Postwar, Sydney flew Spitfires and took part in the Battle of Britain flypast over London on 15th September 1945. After first visiting the Museum in 2010, Sydney kindly donated his flying logbook and medal's where they have been on proud display ever since.<ref></ref>
Sydney Pigden, was for 30 years a teacher at Turnham junior school, on the Honor Oak estate in [[Brockley]], south London, where his pupils included [[Ian Wright]], who credited Pidgen with much that he subsequently achieved. In his 2016 autobiography ''A Life in Football'', dedicated to Pigden, Wright described him as "the first positive male figure that I had in my life". <ref name=wrightsydney>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref>
==References==
[[Category:1922 births]]
[[Category:Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve personnel of World War II]]
[[Category:Royal Air Force pilots of World War II]]
[[Category:British military personnel of World War II]]
==Career==
Pidgen survived well over 100 ground-attack sorties with 164 'Argentine-British' Squadron, when flying Hawker Hurricane and Typhoon rocket-armed aircraft against heavily defended enemy ground targets.
Postwar, Sydney flew Spitfires and took part in the Battle of Britain flypast over London on 15th September 1945. After first visiting the Museum in 2010, Sydney kindly donated his flying logbook and medal's where they have been on proud display ever since.<ref></ref>
Sydney Pigden, was for 30 years a teacher at Turnham junior school, on the Honor Oak estate in [[Brockley]], south London, where his pupils included [[Ian Wright]], who credited Pidgen with much that he subsequently achieved. In his 2016 autobiography ''A Life in Football'', dedicated to Pigden, Wright described him as "the first positive male figure that I had in my life". <ref name=wrightsydney>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref>
==References==
[[Category:1922 births]]
[[Category:Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve personnel of World War II]]
[[Category:Royal Air Force pilots of World War II]]
[[Category:British military personnel of World War II]]
October 08, 2018 at 04:04AM
