• Summers was taken prisoner. He was held as a POW until after the armistice, finally being repatriated in December 1918. Summers remained in the RAF post-war...
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  • John Summers (sport shooter) (born 1957), Australian Olympic sport shooter John Summers & Sons, UK steel and iron producers John Summers (RAF officer)...
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  • Summers is a surname, and may refer to the following people: Clyde Summers (1918–2010), American labor lawyer and law professor at the University of Pennsylvania...
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    John Randall Daniel "Bob" Braham, DSO & Two Bars, DFC & Two Bars, AFC, CD (6 April 1920 – 7 February 1974) was a Royal Air Force (RAF) night fighter pilot...
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    Captain Sir John William Alcock KBE DSC (5 November 1892 – 19 December 1919) was a British Royal Navy and later Royal Air Force officer who, with navigator...
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    John 'Cat's Eyes' Cunningham CBE, DSO & Two Bars, DFC & Bar, AE (27 July 1917 – 21 July 2002) was a Royal Air Force (RAF) night fighter ace during the...
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    Group RAF of Bomber Command at RAF Mildenhall. On 1 October 1963 he was promoted to air vice marshal and served as air officer commanding (AOC) RAF Middle...
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    First World War, Coningham remained in the Royal Air Force (RAF), initially remaining as Officer Commanding 92 Squadron. During the early 1920s he served...
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  • Raf Jan Simons (Dutch pronunciation: [rɑf ˈsimɔns]; born 12 January 1968) is a Belgian fashion designer. Beginning in furniture design, Simons launched...
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    Commander and became the Officer Commanding RAF Exeter. On 11 September 1940 Dewar took off on a routine flight from RAF Exeter for RAF Tangmere in Hurricane...
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  • Charles John Thomson, GCB, CBE, AFC (7 June 1941 – 10 July 1994), usually Sir John Thomson, was a senior officer in the Royal Air Force (RAF). Educated...
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    John Anthony Logan Currie, DFC (7 December 1921 – 19 October 1996) was an officer in the Royal Air Force (RAF) and an author. After serving during the...
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    Hugh Dowding (category Royal Flying Corps officers)
    April 1882 – 15 February 1970) was a senior officer in the Royal Air Force. He was Air Officer Commanding RAF Fighter Command during the Battle of Britain...
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  • commissioned on 10 October 1941 (RAF No. 47269). He completed his entire flying training in the United Kingdom, and was a flying officer by the time of his posting...
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    Arthur Tedder, 1st Baron Tedder (category Dorset Regiment officers)
    (RAF) during the inter-war years when he served in Turkey, Great Britain and the Far East. During World War II, as Air Officer Commanding of the RAF Middle...
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  • Pilot Officer John Chomley, and Flight Lieutenant John Holderness. Of these, Hull and Chomley lost their lives. Hull, the highest-scoring RAF ace of...
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    "William Earle", but later Johns adopted the more familiar "Capt. W. E. Johns". While his apparent final RAF rank of flying officer was equivalent to an army...
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    Headquarters RAF Fighter Command in 1953. He was made Commandant of the RAF Flying College at Manby in 1956, Deputy Air Secretary in 1958 and Air Officer Commanding...
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  • commanded by an RAF officer normally of Air Vice-Marshal rank. Following the end of World War I and the accompanying British defence cuts, the new RAF took up...
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    Senior Air Staff Officer at Headquarters RAF Far East in Singapore from 1934 and as Station Commander at RAF Hawkinge from 1937. At the outbreak of the...
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    Harris by the press and often within the RAF as "Butch" Harris, was Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief (AOC-in-C) RAF Bomber Command during the height of the...
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    cadre of professional full-time officers under the command of the Commandant Royal Observer Corps; latterly a serving RAF Air Commodore. In 1925, following...
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  • John Alexander Cruickshank, VC, AE (born 20 May 1920) is a Scottish former banker, former Royal Air Force officer, and a Second World War recipient of...
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    Royal Air Force Fylingdales (RAF Fylingdales) is a Royal Air Force station on Snod Hill in the North York Moors, England. Its motto is Vigilamus ("We...
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    (7 September 1917 – 31 July 1992) was a highly decorated Royal Air Force (RAF) pilot and group captain during the Second World War, and a philanthropist...
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    Training Unit at RAF Heston and then RAF Llandow. Kent was awarded a Bar to his DFC on 21 October 1941. The published citation read: This officer has led his...
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    made by RAF Spitfires were flown by 60 Squadron Mk XVIIIs over Malaya on 1 January 1951. The first Spitfire I to enter service with the RAF arrived at...
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    Aerobatic Team, is the aerobatics display team of the Royal Air Force (RAF) based at RAF Waddington. The team was formed in late 1964 as an all-Royal Air Force...
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    Royal Air Force Digby otherwise known as RAF Digby is a Royal Air Force station located near Scopwick and 11.6 mi (18.7 km) south east of Lincoln, in...
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    Douglas Bader (category People from St John's Wood)
    junior officers at Kenley in 1930, while serving in No. 23 Squadron RAF. Bader was given the post of the Fighter Leader's School commanding officer. He received...
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