It is with great sadness that we have to announce the death of Douglas Tidy.

One of the last of The Few.  Douglas was a World War II Royal Air Force member who flew in Wellington bombers.  Douglas joined the British National Party in 2004 “in order,” he said “to show the British people the true face of the the BNP.”

“I was proud to have fought for this nation during World War II and by joining the BNP, I am still fighting for the freedom and identity of the British people. It is the only Party of common sense,” he said at the time.

Last year, at the age of 86, he appeared alongside Nick Griffin at the Battle for Britain fund-raising road show held in the South West, lining-up with two other World War II Spitfire pilots who had joined the BNP.

Douglas spent his final years at the Officers’ Association Country Home at Bishopsteignton in Devon overlooking the River Teign estuary.

“It is a lovely place with a superb garden in which I can walk, and my room looks out over the river. I am truly blessed to have come to this haven of peace in the autumn of my life,” Douglas told the British National Party’s newspaper Freedom last year.