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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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    Thomas Trenchard, 2nd Viscount Trenchard, MC (15 December 1923 – 29 April 1987), was a British hereditary peer and junior minister in Margaret Thatcher's...
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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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    aerial combat. By 1 April 1918 the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service had amalgamated into the Royal Air Force. Hugh Trenchard had been appointed...
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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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    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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    Hugh Trenchard was the commander of the Royal Flying Corps in France from 25 August 1915 until 2 January 1918. In the summer of 1915, General Sir David...
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  • earliest RFC numbered wings to be formed. The wing's first commander was Hugh Trenchard who had been appointed a few days earlier. The 1st Wing was assigned...
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    Arthur Gouge and then the Chief of the Air Staff, Sir Hugh Trenchard (later Viscount Trenchard) of the feasibility of such a large aircraft and Air Ministry...
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    ISBN 978-1-898823-27-8. Best, Anthony (2018). "Sir John Simon, 1873–1954 [1st Viscount Simon] Foreign Secretary, 1931–35". In Best, Anthony; Cortazzi, Hugh (eds...
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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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    Lutyens, sculpted by William Reid Dick and unveiled by Hugh Trenchard, 1st Viscount Trenchard, Marshal of the Royal Air Force on 31 July 1932. In the...
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  • Secretary to Sir Alfred Milner, and latterly on the staff of Hugh Trenchard, 1st Viscount Trenchard. Gordon-Lennox was born to Charles Gordon-Lennox, 6th Duke...
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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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  • honours or by gaining fame subsequent to their RAF service. Hugh Trenchard, 1st Viscount Trenchard – founding father of the RAF Arthur Tedder, 1st Baron Tedder...
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    actor Margaret Pedler, novelist Nazim Azman, racer № 9. Hugh Trenchard, 1st Viscount Trenchard № 23 Margaret Pyke Albert George Sandeman, governor of the...
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  • among Viscounts is: Viscounts in the Peerage of England Viscounts in the Peerage of Scotland Viscounts in the Peerage of Great Britain Viscounts in the...
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  • 1st Marquess of Halifax Marshal of the Royal Air Force Hugh Trenchard, 1st Viscount Trenchard Major General Charles Worsley (no memorial remains) Unknown...
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    one of the three children of Stephen Edward Rice (died 1831), of Mount Trenchard House, and Catherine Spring, daughter and heiress of Thomas Spring of...
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    Marshal of the Royal Air Force Charles Frederick Algernon Portal, 1st Viscount Portal of Hungerford, KG, GCB, OM, DSO & Bar, MC, DL (21 May 1893 – 22 April...
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  • Field Marshal Sir William Slim of Burma (2013) Boom: The Life of Viscount Trenchard, Father of the Royal Air Force (2016) Colour Magazine Writer of the...
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  • Thomas Dalyell 1919–1946: Marshal of the RAF (Col.) Hugh Montague Trenchard, 1st Viscount Trenchard, GCB 1946–1957: Maj-Gen. Sir Edmund Hakewill Smith...
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    from the Royal Flying Corps, such as Hugh Trenchard, David Henderson and John Salmond, or the Tank Corps, such as Hugh Elles. List of works by John Singer...
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    STUDIES online at bham.ac.uk (accessed 19 January 2008) TRENCHARD, Hugh Montague Trenchard, 1st Viscount in Who Was Who 1951–1960 (London, A. & C. Black, 1984...
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  • Manchester United, attended Rydens Enterprise School in Hersham. Hugh Trenchard, 1st Viscount Trenchard (1873-1956), Marshal of the Royal Air Force, lived at The...
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  • 28 October 2009. Retrieved 1 October 2009. Barrass, Malcolm (9 October 2007). "Marshal of the RAF The Viscount Trenchard of Wolfeton". Air of Authority...
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    Samuel John Gurney Hoare, 1st Viscount Templewood, GCSI, GBE, CMG, PC, JP (24 February 1880 – 7 May 1959), more commonly known as Sir Samuel Hoare, was...
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  • Asquith". Retrieved 9 September 2019. "House of Lords, Official Website – Viscount Falkland". Retrieved 5 April 2012. "Earl Peel". UK Parliament. Retrieved...
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  • Garnet Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley 1911: Herbert Kitchener, 1st Viscount Kitchener 1937: Hugh Trenchard, 1st Viscount Trenchard 1953: Walter Montagu...
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    bronze and sits on a Portland stone base. Marshal of the RAF Hugh Trenchard, 1st Viscount Trenchard (1873–1956) is commemorated by a 1961 bronze statue situated...
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