Conor attended the dedication of a memorial for Pilot Officer Hight a New Zealander to took part in the Battle of Britian and who's Mark 1 Spitfire crashed at Leven Road Meryick Park on 15 August 1940.
Pilot Officer Hight who was just 22 years of age managed to bail out of his plane during a dog fight over Bournemouth after he was hit by a German bomber's rear guns but was thought to be too badly injured to be able to pull is parachute cord.