Air Cdre Geoffrey Nicolas Ernest Tindal-Carill-Worsley CB

CBE 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 o ...

RAF (8 June 1908 - 28 April 1996) was a

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officer.‘TINDAL-CARILL-WORSLEY, Air Cdre Geoffrey Nicolas Ernest’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2007; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2012 ; online edn, Nov 201
accessed 25 Dec 2013
/ref> He was the son of Philip Tindal-Carill-Worsley and the first cousin of Group Captain Nicolas Tindal-Carill-Worsley. Educated at

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and

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. He was commissioned into the RAF in 1928, and served during the

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and was appointed CBE in 1943 and CB in 1954.

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1908 births 1996 deaths People educated at Eton College Graduates of the Royal Air Force College Cranwell Commanders of the Order of the British Empire Companions of the Order of the Bath Royal Air Force officers Royal Air Force personnel of World War II {{RAF-bio-stub