Lieutenant George Rensbury Hicks DFC (24 January 1900 – 24 November 1951) was a First World War flying ace credited with eight aerial victories. Hicks was born...
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English footballer George Elgar Hicks (1824–1914), English painter George Hicks (RAF officer) (1900–1951), World War I flying ace George Hicks (broadcast journalist)...
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a poem by Cuthbert Hicks published three years earlier in Icarus: An Anthology of the Poetry of Flight. The last two lines in Hicks' poem The Blind Man...
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Frederick Browning (category Grenadier Guards officers)
Browning GCVO KBE CB DSO (20 December 1896 – 14 March 1965) was a senior officer of the British Army who has been called the "father of the British airborne...
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Royal Air Force Hornchurch, or more simply RAF Hornchurch, is a former Royal Air Force sector station in the parish of Hornchurch, Essex (now the London...
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Air officers in the Indian and Sri Lankan air forces also wear gorget patches with one to five stars depending on their seniority. RAF officer cadets...
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Edward Shackleton, Baron Shackleton (category Officers of the Order of the British Empire)
Conservatives towards Labour. Shackleton served in the Royal Air Force (RAF) during the Second World War. On 29 July 1940, he was commissioned into the...
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- Rehabilitation Centre Charles Lamb as Elderly Man Richard Owens as RAF Officer Arbel Jones as Welsh Lady Sean Scanlan as Welsh Man Tony Caunter as Air...
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Royal Flying Corps Canada (redirect from RAF Canada)
the RFC and the new Royal Air Force (RAF). Of these trainees, 2,624 went to Europe for operational duty. The RAF(C) was succeeded by the establishment...
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"prisoner of war". For details of RAF rank abbreviations, see RAF Commissioned Officer Ranks and RAF Non-Commissioned Officer Ranks. For details of FAA rank...
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Manchester Linzi Melanie Neal — Community Development Officer, RAF Odiham. For services to RAF Personnel and their Families Doris Anita Neil — For services...
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MI6 (redirect from Passport Control Officer)
Johnson), MI5 officer and Soviet agent Guy Burgess (cryptonym: Hicks), SIS officer and Soviet agent John Cairncross (cryptonym: Liszt), SIS officer and Soviet...
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Alexander Mountbatten, 1st Marquess of Carisbrooke (category Peers created by George V)
Battenberg; 23 November 1886 – 23 February 1960) was a British Royal Navy officer, a member of the Hessian princely Battenberg family and the last surviving...
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List of serving senior officers of the British Army "Senior Appointments". raf.mod.uk. Royal Air Force. 13 November 2020. Retrieved 13 November 2020. Mackie...
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(commonly known as the Katy Railway) to Taliaferro Field #1 (later named Hicks Field), Texas. The 77th would then move to Taliaferro Field # 2 (later named...
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von und zu Chudenitz, DFC, DSO, MC, RAF (1913–1962). With him she had one son and one daughter. Major Anthony George Hamilton (1874–1936), who fought in...
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No. 17 Group RAF (T), Air Officer Commanding: Air Commodore T.E.B. Howe, CBE, AFC Group Headquarters: Fort Grange located in Gosport RAF Gosport Torpedo...
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Robert Henry Cain (category Honourable Artillery Company officers)
successfully crossing the Rhine, this led Brigadier 'Pip' Hicks to comment "there's one officer, at least, who's shaved". Cain's reply was "I was well brought...
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early 18th century, which continued to be managed by their successors, the Hicks Beach family, until the end of the 19th century. The ancient parish included...
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as Flying Officer David Campbell, an RAF fighter pilot in The Longest Day, which included a large ensemble cast featuring: McDowall, George Segal, Henry...
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17th Aero Squadron (section RAF combat operations)
for the same destination on 24 September. The squadron was assigned to Hicks Field, which afterward was given designation Taliaferro Field #1. Upon arrival...
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Dean Mahomed (category British East India Company Army officers)
whose work was displayed at the Royal Academy. Together they had a son, RAF Captain Felix Wyatt. Felix was killed in action during the First World War...
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Hicks (American football) (1951–2016), lineman John Hicks (baseball) (born 1989), American professional baseball catcher and first baseman John Hicks...
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Canon Nigel Mark Genders. Chief Education Officer, Church of England. For services to Education. Alan George Gibb. Head of Sea Fisheries, Marine Scotland...
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signatory to the U.S. Declaration of Independence Nugent Hicks, or Frederick Cyril Nugent Hicks (1872–1942), English Anglican bishop, served as Bishop of...
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(1904–1988), Air Officer Commanding, Rhodesia, 1951–1954, Air Officer Commanding, Iraq, 1954–1956, and Air Officer Commanding, No 25 Group, RAF Flying Training...
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James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me (1977). Cottage to Let (1941) as RAF Officer (uncredited) The Little Ballerina (1947) as (uncredited) It Always Rains...
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Artillery, Army Reserve Warrant Officer Class 2 Richard Kit Helmn. Yorkshire Regiment, Army Reserve Major Luke George Hoare. Army Air Corps Chaplain to...
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combined force had 1,438 C-47/Dakota transports (1,274 USAAF and 164 RAF) and 321 converted RAF bombers. The Allied glider force had been rebuilt after Normandy...
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Glenn Miller (category United States Army Air Forces officers)
whereabouts. Although AAF and RAF combat missions flew that day, as well as numerous transport planes, the RAF Training Unit at RAF Twinwood Farm, near Bedford...
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