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Lucy Callaghan’s latest book I Might as Well Die in the Sky is the biography of Robert Stanley Capon. R S Capon was an Oxford scholar, astronomer, mathematician, musician, WWI pilot, prisoner-of-war, and decorated pilot.

The book describes his education and early family life, work at the Mt Wilson
Observatory in California, and the life he shared with Maude Irene Bulcock. R S
Capon’s WWI and WWII experiences as technical officer, pilot, and then Research
Director with the Royal Air Force are also explored. In 1947 he relocated from the UK
to Australia with his family.

Professor James Hurley, R S Capon’s grandson, notes in the Foreword to the book:
‘Through Lucy Callaghan’s many hours of research into archives in Oxford University, the University of Adelaide and various sites in the UK and USA, material has come to light which sheds light on the missing years of our grandfather’s life, and much more.’