Sgt. I. Hutchinson was born in Charminster.
Iain was posted from the RAFVR to 222 Squadron in February, 1940.

While on patrol on 18th September 1940, Iain was forced to bale out of his Spitfire I (R6772) over Canterbury after combat with a Bf 109 at 13:55hrs. He was wounded.
Of that incident, Iain said, "I was flying again the next day but I was shot down five times during the next month, though I didn't end up in hospital until the last time."

On 30th September, 1940, he survived when he wrote off a Spitfire I (P9492) when he force landed at 13:45hrs at Denham after combat.

The last time Iain was shot down in flames over south west London, miraculously managing to bale out, although he was badly burned. He was treated for burns at RAF hospital Uxbridge where he was one of the last to receive a tannic acid treatment then used for burns. He said: "The acid produced great scabs that covered my face and legs while the whites of my eyes turned bright red."

Iain Hutchinson's Battle of Britain record saw him register three Me109 German fights as confirmed kills, one Heinkel bomber, an Me109 and one Me110 twin-engined heavy fighter as probably destroyed and one Me109 damaged.
One of his most notable victories was the shooting down of veteran ace Oberleutenant Eckhardt Priebe, who was taken prisoner and sent to Canada.

Hutchinson's flying days were not over and he went on to fly unarmed Spitfire reconnaissance missions before being shot down by Me109s over Norway on a long-range mission in a specially adapted Mosquito fighter-bomber. He landed despite the tail being shot off and his navigator calmly fired a Verey pistol into a pool of petrol, blowing up the plane. Eventually they were met by a Luftwaffe officer who said in perfect English: "We've been waiting for you for a while. "I'm afraid our coffee's cold, but have some schnapps instead."

Hutchinson spent the rest of the war in Stalag Luft 3 the prisoner of war camp of Wooden Horse and Great Escape fame.

After the war he did a degree and took a permanent RAF commission flying Vampire jets and pioneering innovations in aircraft safety.
Iain retired from the RAF as a Squadron Leader in 1957.

The fledgling atomic energy industry saw him work with the Atomic Energy Authority at Winfrith in the 1960s before being seconded to the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna in 1969, returning to his home in Charminster after retiring from Vienna in 1982.

Iain Hutchinson, who said he was proud to be 'One of the Few', died in hospital at Dorchester on the day and in the hour that the restored Battle of Britain Memorial Flight of a Lancaster bomber, accompanied by four Spitfires, took to the skies over London in May 2007. He was aged 88.