Fiji Airman

Flying-officer Maurice Scott, of Suva, beside his Hurricane fighter, somewhere in the Mediterranean area. He calls his machine “The Flying Fijian,” and his insignia is a Fijian head. Also, on the plane, are painted the words “Maleka Jan,” Fijian for “good luck.” He has been in many fights, but, so far, “Maleka Jan” has attended him well.

Maurice Scott was educated in New Zealand and at Oxford; called to the Bar in England (Gray’s Inn); joined his father, Sir Henry Milne Scott, in the well-known legal practice in Fiji; and, when war broke out, he became a cap tain in the Fiji Military Forces. He decided to train for the RAF, so resigned his commission and left Fiji in April, 1941, and went to Southern Rhodesia.

Eleven months later he was flying a fighter in North Africa.