George Medal Recipients - Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron Rothschild, Mike Hailwood, Arthur Henry Cobby, Krystyna Skarbek, Alexander Wilkinson (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 156. Not illustrated. Chapters: Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron Rothschild, Mike Hailwood, Arthur Henry Cobby, Krystyna Skarbek, Alexander Wilkinson, Tenzing Norgay, Lionel Crabb, Ian Henderson, Nancy Wake, Leon Goldsworthy, David Purley, Gary O'donnell, Terry Lewis, Andree de Jongh, Les Colquhoun, Peter de Neumann, Jacob C. Vouza, Hugh Randall Syme, Lionel Van Praag, Sybil Kathigasu, Aiden Maccarthy, Morian Hansen, Lisa Potts, Douglas Harkness, Hannah Billig, Stanley Mcardle, Andrew Pennington, Kenneth Howorth, Peter Guy Ottewill, Peter John Randall, Ethel Bush, Walter Leja, Geoffrey Gledhill Turner. Excerpt: Stanley Michael Bailey Hailwood, MBE, GM (2 April 1940 23 March 1981) was a British Grand Prix motorcycle road racer regarded by many as one of the greatest racers of all time. He was known as "Mike The Bike" because of his natural riding ability. Later in his career he went on to compete in Formula One auto racing, becoming one of the few men to compete at the Grand Prix level on motorcycles and in auto racing. Mike Hailwood was born at Langsmeade House, Great Milton in Oxfordshire, His father, who also raced in the pre-World War II era, was a successful motorcycle dealer and as such, Hailwood had a comfortable upbringing. He learned to ride at a young age on a minibike as a small boy in a field near his home. He was educated at Pangbourne College, but left early and worked for a short time in the family business before his father sent him to work at Triumph motorcycles. He married Pauline Barbara Nash on 11 June 1975 and had a son and a daughter. Hailwood first raced on 22 April 1957, at Oulton Park. Barely 17, he finished in 11th place, but was soon posting successful results. In 1958, he teamed with Dan Shorey to win the Thruxton 500 endurance race. By 1961, Hailwood was racing for an up and coming Japanese factory named H...