Early Days
Ivor Broadis in the Second World War completed 500 flying hours on RAF Wellingtons and Lancasters, although he was never on a bombing mission. During the war he'd guested as an amateur for Tottenham Hotspur among other clubs. It was at Tottenham that someone misread his real name (Ivan) as Ivor. And so he inadvertently became known hence forth as Ivor Broadis.
Broadis vividly recalled to the Northern Echo how he was in Italy when news of the Japanese surrender arrived. "Next day we flew hundreds of troops back to England, some of whom hadn't had leave for five years. I was navigator, so I kept passing round notes telling them where we were. It was very emotional when we came over the white cliffs of Dover and you could see all the bonfires down below. I have very fond memories of that."
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