• Sir David George Evans, GCB, CBE (14 July 1924 – 21 February 2020) was a Canadian-British Royal Air Force officer. Born and educated in Canada, Evans was...
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  • Records Sir David Evans (RAF officer) (1924–2020), Air Chief Marshal/Senior Commander in the Royal Air Force (RAF) David Evans (RAAF officer) (1925–2020)...
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    Royal Air Force (redirect from RAF stations)
    The Royal Air Force (RAF) is the air and space force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies. It was formed towards...
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  • Ontario David Stanley Evans (1916–2004), British astronomer David C. Evans (1924–1998), American computer graphics pioneer David Evans (RAF officer) (1924–2020)...
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    Command. It latterly consisted of two formations – No. 1 Group RAF and No. 2 Group RAF. The last Commander-in-Chief was Air Chief Marshal Sir Joe French...
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    academy which provides initial training to all RAF personnel who are preparing to become commissioned officers. The College also provides initial training...
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  • September 1995. p. 12997. "Ousting of RAF chief was fair, say officers". Independent.co.uk. 11 February 1995. Evans, Michael (10 February 1995). "Rifkind...
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  • 1971, Cooper was in command at RAF Patrington, a radar site in the East Riding of Yorkshire. Cooper retired from the RAF in 1978 as an Air Commodore. He...
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  • Deciding on a career in the Royal Air Force (RAF), he commenced initial officer training as a flight cadet at the RAF's College Cranwell in September the same...
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  • Buckinghamshire. The other operational group is No. 2 Group RAF. The current Air Officer Commanding No 1 Group is Air Vice-Marshal Mark Flewin, who took...
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  • School, Parry-Evans joined the Royal Air Force in 1956. He became Officer Commanding No. 214 Squadron in 1974 and Station Commander at RAF Marham in 1975...
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    Force officer, initially as a staff officer at RAF Training Command and then, from July 1941, as a staff officer in the Welfare Section of the RAF Inspector...
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  • in 1953 was on 28 Sqn at RAF Kai Tak. He was appointed Officer Commanding No. 17 Squadron in 1967 and Station Commander at RAF Luqa in 1972. He was then...
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  • gazetted after war's end. Lloyd-Evans was granted a short service commission as a flying officer in the Royal Air Force (RAF) on 24 October 1919. This commission...
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  • care at home and on deployed operations to RAF service personnel. Medical officers are the doctors of the RAF and have specialist expertise in aviation...
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  • Air Marshal Selwyn David Evans AC, DSO, AFC (3 June 1925 – 2 September 2020) was a senior commander of the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF), and a writer...
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    as General Officer Commanding the RAF's Palestine Brigade. Later the same year, he accepted the offer of a permanent commission in the RAF with the rank...
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    the RAF's 40th (Army) Wing, which was operating in Palestine. It comprised his former No. 1 Squadron and three British units. As a Dominion officer, Williams...
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    Jane's International Defence Review, 1 June 1997. Evans 1999, pp. 66–68. Cordesman 2003, p. 298. "RAF Tornado Aircraft Deployments in Operation Granby...
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  • was an acting wing commander. He became Commanding Officer of RAF Biggin Hill in 1955 and of RAF Middleton St. George in 1957. In 1958 he took charge...
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    11. Evans 1998, pp. 22–23. "BAe Harrier GR3 Aircraft History – Post-World War Two Aircraft". Archived 5 January 2011 at the Wayback Machine RAF Museum...
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  • Station Commander of RAF Akrotiri in 1973. After that, he became Senior Air Staff Officer at Headquarters No. 11 Group in 1975, Air Officer Commanding No. 11...
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  • November 2022, five days after his 90th birthday. "Sir Michael Knight, top RAF pilot and energetic commander at the height of the Cold War – obituary"....
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  • Air Force officer. John Frederick Willis was born in London and educated at Dulwich College and the RAF College Cranwell. Willis gained his RAF commission...
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    declaration of war, RAF Scampton launched the first offensive by the RAF when six Hampdens of No. 83 Squadron, led by (the then) Flying Officer Guy Gibson and...
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  • as Pilot Officer Archie Bill Foxley as Squadron Leader Evans David Griffin as Sergeant Pilot Chris Jack Gwillim as Senior Air Staff Officer Myles Hoyle...
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  • Army officer. The film was entered into the 1946 Cannes Film Festival. The film is partly based on the true story of a Czechoslovak officer in the RAF Volunteer...
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  • March 1943 Acting Wing Commander George Howard David Evans, RAF, was appointed as Commanding Officer. A week later while flying an air test his aircraft...
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  • X'): RAF officer and ringleader of the escape committee. James Donald as Group Captain Ramsey ('The SBO'): most senior British & Allied officer in the...
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  • Battista as Domingo Magda Konopka as Sweet Mama Raf Baldassarre as El General Agneta Eckemyr as Pilar David Dreyer as Dude Marisa Solinas as Margherita Gaetano...
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