• a senior Royal Air Force (RAF) staff officer during the 1950s. In his final appointment before retirement in 1959, Simpson was the eighth Commandant of...
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  • "John Simpson") John Simpson (RAF officer) (1907–1967), senior RAF officer in the mid-1950s and eighth Commandant Royal Observer Corps John Simpson (British...
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  • Commodore John Mortimer Warfield (September 26, 1912 - 1970) CBE RAF was a bomber pilot during the Second World War, a senior RAF staff officer and commander...
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  • seconded to the Royal Flying Corps, and posted to No. 1 Reserve Squadron at RAF Gosport to begin his flying training. On 19 March he made his first solo...
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  • transferred to RAF hospital at RAF Halton where he met his future wife Kay. On 4 December 1941, after rehabilitation at the RAF Officers' Hospital Torquay...
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    Blanche & Simpson 2003b, p. 400 Ross, Blanche & Simpson 2003b, p. 385 Ross, Blanche & Simpson 2003a, p. 321 Freedom of Edinburgh for RAF squadron which...
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  • Bryan Simpson (1903–1987), American judge John Herbert Thomas Simpson (1907–1967), senior RAF officer and Commandant Royal Observer Corps John Wistar...
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  • Robert Liversidge (category Royal Air Force officers)
    Officer on 26 November 1939, and served as an intelligence officer in Bomber Command at RAF Wyton and RAF Wattisham, then in Fighter Command at RAF Biggin...
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    Scottish Architects. Retrieved 20 November 2008. "A portrait by John Singer Sargent, RAF Coningsby 1, Series 38, Antiques Roadshow - BBC One". BBC. 20 September...
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    the Royal Air Force along with his fellow Flying Corps officers. Sanders remained in the RAF after the war and made steady progress through the ranks...
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    name John Hume Ross in August 1922. At the RAF recruiting centre in Covent Garden, London, he was interviewed by recruiting officer Flying Officer W. E...
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    shared air victories. Commissioned as pilot officer in April 1940, he transferred to No. 3 Squadron RAF and participated in the Battle of France. In...
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  • Squadron RAF and Reconnaissance Element, Dhahran Detachment Wing Commander Jeremy John Witts, Royal Air Force; Officer Commanding, No. 31 Squadron RAF and...
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    army officer. After collecting sledge dogs in south-west Greenland, the two ships sailed to Young Sund in the north-east coast. From there RAF Sunderland...
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    General William Hood Simpson (18 May 1888 – 15 August 1980) was a senior United States Army officer who served with distinction in both World War I and...
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  • King Rat (film) (category Films scored by John Barry (composer))
    retain their civilized standards. King recruits upper class British RAF officer Flight Lieutenant Peter Marlowe to act as a translator. As they become...
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    Edward Dudley Metcalfe (category British Indian Army officers)
    Metcalfe MVO MC (16 January 1887 – 18 November 1957) was an Indian Army officer and a close friend of and equerry to the Prince of Wales, later King Edward...
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    Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. (category United States Navy officers)
    lieutenants Wilford John Willy and Kennedy were designated as the Navy's first Anvil flight crew. Willy, who was the executive officer of Special Air Unit...
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  • The Great Escape (film) (category Films directed by John Sturges)
    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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    Squadron RAF No. 3 Squadron RAF No. 19 Squadron RAF No. 23 Squadron RAF No. 32 Squadron RAF No. 37 Squadron RAF No. 39 Squadron RAF No. 41 Squadron RAF No....
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  • John Druce Sayer (29 October 1920 – 27 October 2013) OBE was an English first-class cricketer and an officer in both the Fleet Air Arm and the Royal Navy...
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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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    1940 Mahaddie was assigned officer instructor at RAF Kinloss in Scotland. He served with No. 19 Operational Training Unit RAF, still flying the Whitely...
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  • Trafford Leigh-Mallory, Air Officer Commanding No. 12 Group RAF Susannah York as Section Officer Maggie Harvey, Colin's wife John Baskcomb as Farmer Michael...
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    involved Avro Lancaster Mk.I PA278, F for Freddie, operated by No. 103 Squadron RAF (103 Sqn) of Bomber Command just after the end of the Second World War. It...
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    partner nations. A tri-nation training and evaluation unit operating from RAF Cottesmore, the Tri-National Tornado Training Establishment, maintained a...
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    Malta under Air Vice Marshal Sir Keith Park; and RAF Gibraltar under Air Vice Marshal Sturley Simpson. Accordingly, Middle East Command was primarily responsible...
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  • Firth of Forth. On 7 October, it moved to Grangemouth, and on 13 October to RAF Drem, nearer the coast. 16 October 1939 started with relatively good weather...
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    Dossier - Percival Prentice T.1, s/n VS610 RAF, c/r G-AOKL". Aerial Visuals. Retrieved 27 July 2020. Simpson, Andrew (2013). "PERCIVAL PRENTICE T.1 VS618...
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  • deemed to have been under the control of RAF Fighter Command. In 1955 Flt Lt John Holloway, a serving RAF officer, began a personal challenge to compile...
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