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Francis Fressanges
Air Marshal Sir Francis Joseph Fressanges, (27 February 1902 – 17 October 1975) was a senior Royal Air Force officer who served as Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief at Far East Air Force (Royal Air Force), Far East Air Force from 1954 to 1957. RAF career Fressanges joined the Royal Air Force (RAF) as a cadet in 1921. He served with No. 28 Squadron RAF, No. 28 Squadron during Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, North West Frontier operations. Flight International, 4 October 1957 He was appointed Officer Commanding No. 84 Squadron RAF, No. 84 Squadron in 1935 and then became a Staff Officer in the Directorate of Training at the Air Ministry. He served in the Second World War as Officer Commanding No. 210 Squadron RAF, No. 210 Squadron and then as Officer Commanding No. 95 Squadron RAF, No. 95 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Royal Air Force
The Royal Air Force (RAF) is the United Kingdom's air and space force. It was formed towards the end of the First World War on 1 April 1918, becoming the first independent air force in the world, by regrouping the Royal Flying Corps (RFC) and the Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS). Following the Allied victory over the Central Powers in 1918, the RAF emerged as the largest air force in the world at the time. Since its formation, the RAF has taken a significant role in British military history. In particular, it played a large part in the Second World War where it fought its most famous campaign, the Battle of Britain. The RAF's mission is to support the objectives of the British Ministry of Defence (MOD), which are to "provide the capabilities needed to ensure the security and defence of the United Kingdom and overseas territories, including against terrorism; to support the Government's foreign policy objectives particularly in promoting international peace and security". The R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Douglas Macfadyen
Air Marshal Sir Douglas Macfadyen, (8 August 1902 – 26 July 1968) was a Royal Air Force officer who became Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief at RAF Home Command from 1956 until his retirement in 1959. RAF career After education at the Royal Grammar School, Newcastle, Macfadyen joined the Royal Air Force as a cadet in 1920.Air of Authority – A History of RAF Organisation – Air Marshal Sir Douglas Macfadyen After a tour as Adjutant of the London , he became |
Legionnaires Of The Legion Of Merit
The French Foreign Legion (french: Légion étrangère) is a corps of the French Army which comprises several specialties: infantry, cavalry, engineers, airborne troops. It was created in 1831 to allow foreign nationals into the French Army. It formed part of the Armée d’Afrique, the French Army's units associated with France's colonial project in Africa, until the end of the Algerian war in 1962. Legionnaires are highly trained soldiers and the Legion is unique in that it is open to foreign recruits willing to serve in the French Armed Forces. The Legion is today known as a unit whose training focuses on traditional military skills and on its strong esprit de corps, as its men and women come from different countries with different cultures. Consequently, training is often described as not only physically challenging, but also very stressful psychologically. French citizenship may be applied for after three years' service. Any soldier who is wounded during a battle for France ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Knights Commander Of The Order Of The British Empire
The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organisations, and public service outside the civil service. It was established on 4 June 1917 by King George V and comprises five classes across both civil and military divisions, the most senior two of which make the recipient either a knight if male or dame if female. There is also the related British Empire Medal, whose recipients are affiliated with, but not members of, the order. Recommendations for appointments to the Order of the British Empire were originally made on the nomination of the United Kingdom, the self-governing Dominions of the Empire (later Commonwealth) and the Viceroy of India. Nominations continue today from Commonwealth countries that participate in recommending British honours. Most Commonwealth countries ceased recommendations for appointments to the Order of the British Empire when they ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Companions Of The Order Of The Bath
The Most Honourable Order of the Bath is a British order of chivalry founded by George I on 18 May 1725. The name derives from the elaborate medieval ceremony for appointing a knight, which involved bathing (as a symbol of purification) as one of its elements. The knights so created were known as "Knights of the Bath". George I "erected the Knights of the Bath into a regular Military Order". He did not (as is commonly believed) revive the Order of the Bath, since it had never previously existed as an Order, in the sense of a body of knights who were governed by a set of statutes and whose numbers were replenished when vacancies occurred. The Order consists of the Sovereign (currently King Charles III), the Great Master (currently vacant) and three Classes of members: *Knight Grand Cross ( GCB) ''or'' Dame Grand Cross ( GCB) *Knight Commander ( KCB) ''or'' Dame Commander ( DCB) *Companion ( CB) Members belong to either the Civil or the Military Division.''Statutes'' 1925, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1975 Deaths
It was also declared the ''International Women's Year'' by the United Nations and the European Architectural Heritage Year by the Council of Europe. Events January * January 1 - Watergate scandal (United States): John N. Mitchell, H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman are found guilty of the Watergate cover-up. * January 2 ** The Federal Rules of Evidence are approved by the United States Congress. ** Bangladesh revolutionary leader Siraj Sikder is killed by police while in custody. ** A bomb blast at Samastipur, Bihar, India, fatally wounds Lalit Narayan Mishra, Minister of Railways. * January 5 – Tasman Bridge disaster: The Tasman Bridge in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, is struck by the bulk ore carrier , killing 12 people. * January 7 – OPEC agrees to raise crude oil prices by 10%. * January 10–February 9 – The flight of ''Soyuz 17'' with the crew of Georgy Grechko and Aleksei Gubarev aboard the ''Salyut 4'' space station. * January 15 – Alvor Agreement: Portuga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1902 Births
Nineteen or 19 may refer to: * 19 (number), the natural number following 18 and preceding 20 * one of the years 19 BC, AD 19, 1919, 2019 Films * ''19'' (film), a 2001 Japanese film * ''Nineteen'' (film), a 1987 science fiction film Music * 19 (band), a Japanese pop music duo Albums * ''19'' (Adele album), 2008 * ''19'', a 2003 album by Alsou * ''19'', a 2006 album by Evan Yo * ''19'', a 2018 album by MHD * ''19'', one half of the double album ''63/19'' by Kool A.D. * ''Number Nineteen'', a 1971 album by American jazz pianist Mal Waldron * ''XIX'' (EP), a 2019 EP by 1the9 Songs * "19" (song), a 1985 song by British musician Paul Hardcastle. * "Nineteen", a song by Bad4Good from the 1992 album '' Refugee'' * "Nineteen", a song by Karma to Burn from the 2001 album ''Almost Heathen''. * "Nineteen" (song), a 2007 song by American singer Billy Ray Cyrus. * "Nineteen", a song by Tegan and Sara from the 2007 album '' The Con''. * "XIX" (song), a 2014 song by Slipkn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Percy Bernard, 5th Earl Of Bandon
Air Chief Marshal Percy Ronald Gardner Bernard, 5th Earl of Bandon, (30 August 1904 – 8 February 1979) was an Anglo-Irish aristocrat who served as a senior commander in the Royal Air Force in the mid-20th century. He was a squadron, station and group commander during the Second World War, and the fifth Commandant of the Royal Observer Corps after the war. He was awarded the American Distinguished Flying Cross and Bronze Star Medal in 1946. Early life Born in Gillingham, Kent, Bernard was the elder of twin boys by twenty minutes and the son of Lieutenant Colonel Ronald Percy Hamilton Bernard and Lettice Mina Paget, daughter of Captain Gerald Cecil Stewart Paget, son of Lord Alfred Paget, younger son of Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey. On his father's side he was a great-grandson of the Right Reverend Charles Bernard, Bishop of Tuam, younger son of James Bernard, 2nd Earl of Bandon. His family resided in a house on the Theobald's Park estate in Hertfordshire where the e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clifford Sanderson
Air Marshal Sir (Alfred) Clifford Sanderson, (19 February 1898 – 28 January 1976) was a British Royal Air Force officer who served as Air Officer Commanding Far East Air Force from 1952 to 1954. RAF career Educated at Dulwich College, Sanderson joined the Royal Flying Corps in 1916 during the First World War. He transferred to the newly formed Royal Air Force in 1918 and was made Officer Commanding No. 19 Squadron in 1931. He was appointed Station Commander at RAF Ramlah in 1938 and served in the Second World War as Senior Air Staff Officer at Headquarters RAF Palestine and Transjordan and then at RAF Mediterranean before becoming Air Officer Administration at Air Headquarters Egypt. He continued his war service as Director of War Organisation and then as Director of Administrative Plans at the Air Ministry. He was seriously injured in an air crash in February 1945. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William MacDonald (RAF Officer)
Air Chief Marshal Sir William Lawrence Mary MacDonald, (11 August 1908 – 9 November 1984) was a Royal Air Force Officer who served as Commander-in-Chief of the Near East Air Force from 1958 to 1962. RAF career Born in County Cork and educated at Castleknock College, William MacDonald joined the Royal Air Force (RAF) in 1929. He was appointed Officer Commanding No. 150 Squadron in 1938 and served in the Second World War. On 30 September 1940, during the Battle of France, his Fairey Battle bomber was chased at tree top height by three German fighters and he cartwheeled into a French field. He continued his war service as a member of the Air Staff at Headquarters No. 1 Group before being appointed Air Officer for Administration at Headquarters No. 84 Group in November 1944. After the war MacDonald became Commandant of the Central Flying School and then deputy director of Plans at the Air Ministry, before being appointed Air Officer Commanding No. 230 Group and then Air Officer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neill Ogilvie-Forbes
Air Vice Marshal Neill Charles Ogilvie-Forbes, (12 December 1900 – 6 February 1990) was a senior Royal Air Force officer who served as Assistant Chief of the Air Staff (Intelligence) from 1950 to 1952. RAF career Educated at the Oratory School and Trinity College, Cambridge, Neill Ogilvie-Forbes joined the Royal Air Force in 1922. He became a flight commander with No. 13 Squadron in April 1933. He served in the Second World War on secondment to the Royal Iraqi Air Force from January 1939, on the Air Staff at Headquarters No. 15 Group from April 1941 and as deputy director of Operations (Naval Co-operation) from February 1942. After the Second World War, Ogilvie-Forbes served as Air Attaché in Brussels from September 1945, as Air Attaché in Moscow from April 1948 and as Assistant Chief of the Air Staff (Intelligence) at the Air Ministry from January 1950 prior to retiring of his own volition in July 1952. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Ogilvie-Forbes, Neill 1900 bi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alick Stevens
Air Marshal Sir Alick Charles Stevens, (31 July 1898 – 2 July 1987) was a Royal Air Force officer who became Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief at RAF Coastal Command from 1951 until his retirement in 1953. RAF career Educated at Victoria College, Jersey, Stevens joined the Royal Naval Air Service in 1916. He served in the First World War and after having to land in the Thames Estuary following engine failure in November 1916, he was picked up by a German U-Boat, becoming a prisoner of war at Osnabrück in North Germany for the remainder of the war. He was appointed Officer Commanding No. 205 Squadron in 1935. He served in the Second World War as deputy director and then director of Operations (Naval Co-operation) until 1943 when he became Senior Air Staff Officer at Headquarters No. 18 (Reconnaissance) Group. He was made Air Officer Commanding RAF Gibraltar in 1944. After the War he served as Air Officer Commanding No. 47 Group, Air Officer Commanding No. 4 Group and then ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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