In 1947 he was appointed MBE for his services as a PoW and his actions with the partisans.
After the war, he remained in the RAF for two years as a flight lieutenant before moving in 1948 to Kenya where he became a farmer. During the Mau Mau uprising he was co-opted into the Police Air Wing, flying light aircraft on reconnaissance missions. Later he worked as a pilot for East African Airways, returning to Britain in 1972 when he became a pilot for Manx Airlines retiring in 1985.
In 1952 he married Nadine Snelling, an air stewardess, and after her death in 2003 he married Christine McBryde, a widow who had been Nadine’s best friend. She survives him with a son from his first marriage.
Flt Lt Eric Garland, born February 2 1920, died January 17 2016.
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