Air Vice Marshal Peter Theodore Philpott, CB, CBE (20 March 1915 – 13 July 1988) was a senior Royal Air Force officer. Philpott was commissioned into the...
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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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arriving from RAF Thornaby on 10 July. Leonard Cheshire V.C. trained here in 1939. With the beginning of the Second World War, top officers from allied...
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Royal Air Force Finningley or RAF Finningley was a Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force station at Finningley, in the Metropolitan Borough of Doncaster...
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the Royal Air Force is at present a Search and Rescue Squadron based at RAF Akrotiri, using the Westland/Airbus Helicopters Puma HC Mk.2 helicopter....
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Group in RAF Inland Area on 12 April 1926, at RAF Spitalgate, by re-numbering No. 3 Group RAF. Its stations were RAF Digby, RAF Eastchurch, RAF Flowerdown...
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original gate guardian from the former RAF Turnhouse. It is painted to represent serial number L1067 (code XT-D) "Blue Peter", the personal aircraft of the squadron's...
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of an RAF team. Coles joined the Royal Air Force in 1938. He served in the Second World War as Officer Commanding No. 117 Squadron and as Officer Commanding...
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convince RAF senior officers of his capabilities. He was appointed as an honorary RAF Squadron Leader on 22 September 1939 and tasked to head up a new RAF 1...
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numbers of the type served in a variety of roles for the Royal Air Force (RAF), Fleet Air Arm (FAA), Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF), Royal Australian...
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Paddy Finucane (category Irish officers of the Royal Air Force)
Finucane amongst his colleagues, was an Irish Second World War Royal Air Force (RAF) fighter pilot and flying ace—defined as an aviator credited with five or...
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and the Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief (AOC-in-C) of RAF Bomber Command met to finalise the design and decide how to fit it into the RAF's aims. The AOC-in-C...
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serving personnel moved into the RAF. Armitage 1998, p. 269. Armitage 1998, p. 275. Philpott 2006, p. 267. Philpott 2006, p. 269. Sweetman, John (July...
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Zealanders in the RNZAF and RAF included pilots such as the first RAF ace of WW2, Flying Officer Cobber Kain, Alan Deere, whose Nine Lives was one of the first...
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Donald Hardman (category Royal Flying Corps officers)
as Assistant Chief of the Air Staff, Commandant of RAF Staff College, Bracknell, and Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief of Home Command, before becoming...
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Henry Biard (category Royal Air Force officers)
Glancey 2020, p. 97. McKinstry 2010; Pegram 2016, p. 85. Simpson 2011; Philpott 2005, p. 83. Gough 2013, p. 202. "Air Ace Is Seeking His 1912 Licence"...
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units of the RAF : the ancestry, formation and disbandment of all flying units from 1912. Shrewsbury: Airlife. ISBN 1-84037-086-6. Philpott, I. M. (2005)...
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ISBN 1-84037-086-6. "224 Sqn | RAF Heraldry Trust". www.rafht.co.uk. Retrieved 5 March 2018. Pine 1983, p. 74. Philpott, Ian (2013). The birth of the Royal...
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John French, 1st Earl of Ypres (category Suffolk Militia officers)
operations including at various times, in the Baltic and on the Belgian Coast. Philpott discusses French's significant influence on pre-war strategic planning...
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Gerry Finley-Day, Peter Harris, S. Cornforth, Ken Mennell, R. Marsh, Alan Hebden, Brian Bullen Artists: Carlos Ezquerra, Alan Philpott, Ken Houghton, Colin...
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R101 Inquiry 1931, p. 7. Higham 1961, pp. 283–84. Masefield 1982, p. 30. Philpott, Ian: The Royal Air Force – Volume 2: An Encyclopedia of the Inter-War...
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Muehl, John Baddeley, David Buck, Charles Collingwood, Sean Barrett, Toby Philpott, Joseph O'Conor, David Greenaway, Jean Pierre Amiel, Hugh Spight, Robbie...
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p.364 Bond 2002, p. 43 Churchill 1938, p.946-7 Churchill 1938, p.1220 Philpott 2009, p.600 Churchill 1938, p.959 Churchill 1938, p.1213 Churchill 1938...
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Techniquest, Cardiff Bay (28 December 1997) Christ Church, Oxford (4 January 1998) RAF Locking (11 January 1998) Durham (18 January 1998) West Dean College, Chichester...
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1998 New Year Honours (section Officer (OBE))
Cambridgeshire. Joan Edith Philpott, Administrative Officer, Department for Education and Employment. Esther Ida Phorson, Administrative Officer, Department of the...
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Trust. For services to Child Safety. Dr Jane Karen Townson Philpott, Chief Executive Officer, Home Care Association. For services to Domiciliary Care,...
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services to the Economy and Customer Service. Dr. Emma Margaret Philpott – chief executive officer, IASME Consortium Ltd. For services to Cyber Security. Christine...
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changed to that of teaching undergraduates. In 1861, the master, Henry Philpott became Bishop of Worcester, and stood down. Two of the five Fellows of...
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CBE, DSC, GM and Bar, 1918–1985" (PDF). Minewarfare & Clearance Diving Officers' Association. Retrieved 22 November 2015. "No. 35838". The London Gazette...
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intercepted by two RAF planes dispatched from Dyce Airport, a Miles Magister carrying 612 Squadron Leader Finlay Crerar and Officer Robinson, and an Avro...
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