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    Vice Admiral Richard Bell Davies VC, CB, DSO, AFC (19 May 1886 – 26 February 1966), also known as Richard Bell-Davies, was a senior Royal Navy commander...
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    needed] In 1915, during the First World War, Squadron Commander Richard Bell-Davies of the British Royal Naval Air Service performed the first combat...
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  • Richard Davies may refer to: Richard Davies (Mynyddog) (1833–1877), poet in the Welsh language Richard Davies (American actor) (1915–1994), American film...
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    Royal Naval Reserve and Volunteer Reserve being awarded 22 VCs. Richard Bell-Davies of the Royal Naval Air Service also received an award. Note: this...
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    charitable body that also runs the Fly Navy Heritage Trust. Vice-Admiral Richard Bell Davies (1886–1966): the first naval aviator to receive the VC and the first...
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    raid on Kragujevac. First combat search and rescue by airplane: Richard Bell Davies landed his Nieuport 10 to rescue another pilot who had been shot...
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  • Christopher Courtney (1890–1976), Royal Air Force officer Vice Admiral Richard Bell Davies VC (1886–1966), Royal Navy officer and aviator William Robert Aufrère...
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    Mersina, Ottoman Empire, during the Young Turk Revolution of 1909. Richard Bell-Davies (later a VC recipient, then a lieutenant on the battleship HMS Swiftsure)...
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    Geraint Richard Davies (born 3 May 1960) is a British politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Swansea West from 2010 to 2024. He was...
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    Royal Engineers First Ashanti Expedition 1874-02-044 February 1874 Richard Bell-Davies OF-3.3Squadron Commander No. 003No. 3 Squadron RNAS First World War...
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    from June to July 2009 and the last surviving member of the RNAS Richard Bell-Davies – 3 Squadron – awarded the Victoria Cross Noel Pemberton Billing...
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    Alan Roger Davies (/ˈdeɪvɪs/; born 6 March 1966) is an English stand-up comedian, writer, actor and TV presenter. He is best known for his portrayal of...
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    Air Force in France. Also present at the unveiling ceremony was Richard Bell-Davies, British First World War fighter pilot and Royal Navy officer, and...
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    Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Clark-Hall and one of his pilots, Squadron Commander Richard Bell-Davies, VC. Clark-Hall received Phillimore's approval and that of the Commander-in-Chief...
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    transferred from the Royal Air Force to the Royal Navy. Rear Admiral Richard Bell-Davies: 24 May 1939 – 30 September 1941 Rear Admiral Clement Moody: 30 September...
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    Donald Bell Green Howards 1916-07-055 July 1916 Somme, France Eric Bell Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers 1916-07-011 July 1916* Thiepval, France Richard Bell-Davies...
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    Gibson 1997, p. 113. Davies 2015, p. 56. Klotman & Gibson 1997, p. 34. Weldon 1996, p. 574. Palmer, Bill; Palmer, Karen; Meyers, Richard (1995). The Encyclopedia...
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    become, it appears, Headquarters of Rear Admiral, Naval Air Stations, Richard Bell Davies. Captain T Bulteel was the first Royal Navy station commander of...
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    Retrieved 17 December 2019. Ault, Richard (13 December 2019). "Everything you need to know about Newcastle's new Tory MP Aaron Bell". stokesentinel. Retrieved...
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  • feet (10,640 m). September 24 Royal Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Richard Bell Davies makes the first true aircraft carrier landing in history, landing...
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    People's Army of Komuch at Simbirsk, Russia. British fighter pilot Richard Bell Davies completed the first true aircraft carrier landing in history, landing...
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    November 19 – Royal Naval Air Service pilots Squadron Commander Richard Bell-Davies and Flight Sub-Lieutenant Gilbert Smylie are flying a bombing raid...
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    Torsten Henricson-Bell (born September 1982) is a Labour politician, economist, author, and newspaper columnist, serving as Member of Parliament (MP) for...
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  • junction near the Maritsa River in Bulgaria, Squadron Commander Richard Bell Davies won the Victoria Cross for landing to rescue a pilot who had been...
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    and Brixton Hill results". BBC News. July 2024. "About Bell Ribeiro-Addy MP for Streatham". Bell Ribeiro-Addy. Retrieved 18 March 2024. "Local left candidate...
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  • acting as the deputy to the admiral. Christopher Gardner (promoted 2019) Richard Thompson (promoted 2020) Guy Robinson (promoted 2021) Andrew Burns (promoted...
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    Cross, in Tübingen, Germany (d. 2011) Royal Naval Air Service pilots Richard Bell Davies and Gilbert Smylie were making a bombing raid against a railway junction...
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    connected to the sound of the specific bells. An example is the Pete Seeger and Idris Davies song "The Bells of Rhymney". In Scotland, up until the nineteenth...
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  • Pridham-Wippell, CVO. Rear-Admiral Henry Ruthven Moore, CVO DSO. Rear-Admiral Richard Bell-Davies, VC DSO AFC. Engineer Rear-Admiral Henry Stafford Brockman. Captain...
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    Raymond Collishaw, trained at the base between February and July '1916 Richard Bell Davies, made commanding officer of Redcar in January 1916 (along with Killingholme...
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