In The Times
Air Marshal Sir Roy Austen-Smith obituary
Lengthy obit plus photos. RIP.
Austen-Smith was awarded the DFC for “gallantry and devotion to duty on operations in Malaya”, where he was a flight commander with No 33 Squadron, based at RAF Butterworth near Penang. He flew single-engine Tempest Mk II fighters and then twin-engine Hornets, attacking communist targets in support of British ground troops such as the Gordon Highlanders, Manchesters and West Kents, who were confronting the Malayan rebels at that time.