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    Walter Lawson, DFC (January 1913 – 28 August 1941) was an flying ace who served in the Royal Air Force (RAF) during the Second World War. During his service...
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  • Lawson, lawyer and political figure in New Brunswick, Canada Walter Lawson (RAF officer), British flying ace of the Second World War This disambiguation...
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    the RAF and 414 Squadron of the RCAF. His grandfather, Norman Moran (1895–1973), was a fighter pilot during World War I, flying Sopwith Camels. Lawson enrolled...
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  • 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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  • England under repeated attack. Tensions develop between commanding officers of RAF 11 Group, Keith Park, and 12 Group, Trafford Leigh-Mallory. Leigh-Mallory...
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    Curphey; Maxmillian Mare-Montembault; and George Lawson. No. 32 Squadron reformed on 1 April 1923 at RAF Kenley as a single flight of Sopwith Snipe fighters...
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  • Major-General Gilbert Walter Riversdale Monckton, 2nd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley, CB, OBE, MC, DL, FSA (3 November 1915 – 22 June 2006) served in the...
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  • Kenneth Holt (197863), RAF. Leon Kozlowski (500034), RAF. Edward Robert Wheeler Lawson (55281), RAF. Victor Albert Madeley (155171), RAF. James Carlyle Marmion...
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    February 2018). "Who's Who in an RAF Bomber Crew". iwm.org.uk. Imperial War Museum. Retrieved 31 August 2018. Morison, Walter (23 July 2003). "Colditz 1945:...
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  • "prisoner of war". For details of RAF rank abbreviations, see RAF Commissioned Officer Ranks and RAF Non-Commissioned Officer Ranks. For details of FAA rank...
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    Order of the British Empire, including David Bowie, John Cleese, Nigella Lawson, Elgar Howarth, L. S. Lowry, George Melly, and J. G. Ballard. In addition...
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  • "prisoner of war". For details of RAF rank abbreviations, see RAF Commissioned Officer Ranks and RAF Non-Commissioned Officer Ranks. For details of FAA rank...
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  • First World War "Blondie" – Arnold Walker, RAF pilot Herbert Hasler, Second World War Royal Marines officer "Blood" – J. A. L. Caunter, British general...
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  • "prisoner of war". For details of RAF rank abbreviations, see RAF Commissioned Officer Ranks and RAF Non-Commissioned Officer Ranks. For details of FAA rank...
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  • Ballard Berkeley (category Metropolitan Special Constabulary officers)
    Court 1970 The Weekend Murders  Peter, the butler 1972 Bless This House  RAF officer on train 1976 Confessions of a Driving Instructor  Lord Snodley 1978...
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  • (acting Major) Charles Walter Simpson, Royal Army Medical Corps. Lieutenant (local Captain) John Charles Arthur Digby Lawson, 11th Hussars (Prince Albert's...
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    Navigation, RAF Manston, during which time he was promoted to squadron leader on April 1, 1939. At the outbreak of war in September, Miller was the Officer Commanding...
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  • to do his national service at RAF Northwood, where he met future The Good Life actor Richard Briers. Upon leaving the RAF the two aspiring actors both...
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  • Managing Director, Laithwaites. For services to the Wine Industry. Peter John Lawson. Chair, Scottish Opera. For services to the Arts in Scotland. Simon David...
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    squadrons serving in the UK under direct command and control of the RAF, with RAF owned aircraft. 403 Squadron (Tomahawk IIA and IIB, March 1941) 400...
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  • Edward Brodie Hoare, British Conservative politician Sir Norman Hulbert, RAF officer and Conservative politician Nawab Mohammad Ismail Khan, (politician)...
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  • (1895–1993) – Royal Air Force. Last American flying ace. Served in No. 23 Squadron RAF. Arthur Raymond Brooks (1895–1991) – Air Service, United States Army. Last...
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  • John Walter McNairney. Chief Planner, Scottish Government. For public service. Professor Fiona Catherine McQueen. Lately Chief Nursing Officer for Scotland...
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  • Scottish footballer (Grimsby Town, Stoke City, Barnsley). 10 February – Ian Lawson, 84, English footballer (Leeds United, Burnley, Crystal Palace). (death...
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  • pilots were not officers; the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight at RAF Coningsby in Lincolnshire, with Squadron Leader Paul Day; the RAF Hawker Fury entered...
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    Thunderbolts flew escort for RAF Liberators in the bombing of Rangoon. Thunderbolts remained in RAF service until October 1946. Postwar RAF Thunderbolts were used...
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    Rumbula massacre "Going outside to fight it out." — John K. Lawson, Canadian Army officer (19 December 1941), over the radio to his commanders prior to...
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  • "Nigella Lawson's BBC return draws 2.3m viewers – but baffles Only Connect fans". The Guardian. Retrieved 4 November 2015. "'Avocado-gate': Nigella Lawson recipe...
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    a Senior British Naval Officer, Rear-Admiral Douglas Fisher was already installed. The PR Spitfires at Vayenga had their RAF roundels painted out and...
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  • Elizabeth II Brigadier General Walter Long (1879–1917) Brigadier-General Horace Sewell (1881–1953), British Army officer known for his mixed race ancestry...
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