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    Marshal of the Royal Air Force Hugh Montague Trenchard, 1st Viscount Trenchard, GCB, OM, GCVO, DSO (3 February 1873 – 10 February 1956) was a British...
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    Hugh Trenchard, 3rd Viscount Trenchard, DL (born 12 March 1951), is a British soldier and businessman. In 1987, he succeeded to his father's titles. He...
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    Trenchard, 1st Viscount Trenchard (1873–1956) Thomas Trenchard, 2nd Viscount Trenchard (1923–1987) Hugh Trenchard, 3rd Viscount Trenchard (b. 1951) The heir...
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    Air Force Board. The post was created in 1918 with Major General Sir Hugh Trenchard as the first incumbent. The current and 30th Chief of the Air Staff...
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    France. After the Battle of the Somme, Dowding clashed with General Hugh Trenchard, the commander of the RFC, over the need to give pilots some rest and...
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    first officer to be promoted to MRAF was Sir Hugh Trenchard in 1927. Since that time, including Trenchard, there have been 27 men who have held the rank...
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  • Hugh Trenchard saw service in Nigeria from 1903 to 1910 where he was involved in efforts to bring the interior under settled British rule and quell inter-tribal...
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    Albert Medal for this act on the personal recommendation of General Hugh Trenchard, and in February 1916 was promoted to lieutenant colonel and given command...
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    David Henderson, Additional Member and Vice-President Major-General Sir Hugh Trenchard, Chief of the Air Staff Major-General (formerly Rear-Admiral) Mark Kerr...
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    v t e Chiefs of the Air Staff Sir Hugh Trenchard Sir Frederick Sykes Sir Hugh Trenchard Sir John Salmond Sir Geoffrey Salmond Sir John Salmond Sir Edward...
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    strategic bombing of German targets. The RFC's commanding officer, Hugh Trenchard believed in the offensive use of air power and pushed for operations...
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  • Trenchardism describes the domestic and foreign policies associated in Britain with Air Marshal Hugh Trenchard in successive roles as Chief of the Air...
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    such as Italy's Giulio Douhet, America's Billy Mitchell, and Britain's Hugh Trenchard, had commanded aircraft during World War I. The improvements in aircraft...
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    Conservative government from 1979 to 1983. Thomas Trenchard was born in 1923, the son of Katherine and Hugh Trenchard, whom many regard as the father of the Royal...
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    support to the RFC. Hugh Trenchard was the commander of the Royal Flying Corps in France from August 1915 until January 1918. Trenchard's time in command...
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    contemporary of the air warfare advocates Walther Wever, Billy Mitchell, and Hugh Trenchard. Born in Caserta, Campania, Italy, from a family of Savoyard exiles...
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    services into the Royal Air Force (RAF). Its first Chief of the Air Staff, Hugh Trenchard, was among the military strategists in the 1920s, like Giulio Douhet...
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  • Hugh Trenchard, 1st Viscount Trenchard (1873–1956) was a British officer who was instrumental in establishing the Royal Air Force. Trenchard may also refer...
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  • Humphreys (1899–1965), American mobster The Camel, nickname of Hugh Trenchard, 1st Viscount Trenchard (1873–1956), Marshal of the Royal Air Force River Camel...
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    its colonies, with Hugh Trenchard as its leading proponent, Sir Charles Portal, Sir Arthur Harris, and Sidney Bufton. The Trenchard School theories were...
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    Hugh Trenchard, 1st Viscount Trenchard received numerous titles, decorations, and honours both during and after his military career. Trenchard held the...
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    when F. M. Bailey and Henry Morshead validated his claims." Captain Hugh Trenchard said, "his account has been confirmed in the most remarkable manner...
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  • children: Hon. Fiona Elizabeth Morrison (born 1954), married Hugh Trenchard, 3rd Viscount Trenchard, in 1975 and had four children. Alastair Morrison, 3rd Baron...
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  • The mutiny was brought to an end without bloodshed when General Sir Hugh Trenchard threatened lethal force. On 13 January 1919, around 5,000 soldiers mutinied...
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  • shipowner Hugh Annesley (police officer), Northern Irish police officer Hugh Arbuthnot (British Army officer), British soldier and politician Hugh Trenchard, 1st...
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  • Paine Geoffrey Salmond John Salmond Ernest Swinton Frederick Sykes Hugh Trenchard United Kingdom portal British and U.S. military ranks compared British...
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  • existed on paper from 1919; the first person to hold the rank was Lord Hugh Trenchard, from 1927. In the UK the rank has often been held by the most senior...
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    David Henderson – Director-General of Military Aeronautics General Hugh Trenchard – Commander of the Royal Flying Corps – (August 1915 – January 1918)...
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  • preferred and has been used since its adoption in August 1919. Sir Hugh Trenchard, the incumbent Chief of the Air Staff when the rank was introduced,...
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    v t e Chiefs of the Air Staff Sir Hugh Trenchard Sir Frederick Sykes Sir Hugh Trenchard Sir John Salmond Sir Geoffrey Salmond Sir John Salmond Sir Edward...
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