Rex King-Clark

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Rex King-Clark, was a British Army World War II pilot, racer, photographer, author, and diarist, who once headed the Army Air Corps.

He served in the Manchester Regiment from 1934, and flew a Miles Whitney Straight airplane as far as Egypt, Singapore, and Bali. During March 1937, he flew aerial reconnaissance flights of the harbor at Benghazi, Africa, taking photographs which were used by the Royal Air Force during World War II. He also served in Palestine, where he commanded one of Orde Wingate’s three Special Night Squads, fighting Arab guerillas from 1936 to 1938, for which he was awarded the Military Cross. Outside his army career, he raced cars, driving a Monoposto MG14 in 1936 at Brooklands, and achieving 59 mph in a Lombard. His diaries of these years became the book Free for a Blast.

During World War 2, he fought in the Battle of Kohima on the Burma/India border in 1944, and wrote two books from his diaries of those times, The Battle for Kohima, and Forward From Kohima. He also wrote a biography of Jack Churchill, called Jack Churchill: Unlimited Boldness, about an even bolder military adventurer.

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Free for a Blast, ISBN 0-903243-07-5 The author's experiences soldiering with the Manchester Regiment from 1934 to 1939.
The Battle for Kohima 1944: The Narrative of the 2nd Battalion the Manchester Regiment - The Machine Gun Battalion of the British 2nd Division ISBN 1-873907-01-X
Forward From Kohima - A Burma Diary November 1944 to May 1945 ISBN 1-873907-11-7
Jack Churchill: Unlimited Boldness, ISBN 1-873907-06-0, an account of the fantastic career of 'Mad Jack' Churchill, who fought World War 2 with a sword, and bow and arrows.