For schoolboys in the 1920s and ’30s there was no shortage of heroic racing drivers, airmen and adventurers to idolise, but there were names that stood out amongst the often distinguished and occasionally eccentric crowd. Sir Henry Segrave was certainly one of them. As a commissioned officer with the Royal Warwickshire Regiment, he fought, quite literally, hand-to-hand in the mud of World War I before joining the young pioneers of flight in the newly formed Royal Air Corps.