Air Chief Marshal Sir Wilfrid Rhodes Freeman, 1st Baronet, GCB, DSO, MC, FRAeS (18 July 1888 – 15 May 1953) was one of the most important influences on...
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Minister of Aircraft Production, nicknamed it "Freeman's Folly", alluding to Air Chief Marshal Sir Wilfrid Freeman, who defended Geoffrey de Havilland and his...
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RAF production, research, and development, and also served with Sir Wilfrid Freeman, the Air Member for Development and Production. Self also sat on the...
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United Kingdom. It was created on 4 July 1945 for Air Chief Marshal Wilfrid Freeman. As of 2010 the presumed rightful holder (the first Baronet's grandson)...
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theoretical neuroscientist and philosopher Wilfrid Freeman (1888–1953), British air marshal Woody Freeman (born 1946), Arkansas businessman and 1984 Republican...
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an entry into jet engine manufacture. Vice-Chief of Air Staff Sir Wilfrid Freeman, one of the masterminds behind the dramatic advances in British aircraft...
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Sir Henri Charles Wilfrid Laurier, GCMG, PC, KC (/ˈlɒrieɪ/ LORR-ee-ay; French: [wilfʁid loʁje]; November 20, 1841 – February 17, 1919) was a Canadian...
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of the Rolls-Royce aero engine division, wrote to Air Chief Marshal Wilfrid Freeman expressing his wish to stop work on the Peregrine, Vulture and another...
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Research and Development 14 January 1935 – 1 April 1936 Succeeded by Wilfrid Freeman New title Command established Commander-in-Chief Fighter Command 1936–1940...
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executive of the Ministry of Aircraft Production Air Chief Marshal Wilfrid Freeman and Air Marshal Francis Linnell, Controller of Research and Development...
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initial Chief Executive of the Ministry was Air Chief Marshal Sir Wilfrid Freeman, who left after frustrations with Lord Beaverbrook's working methods...
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Royal Air Force station. April 1922 Charles Burnett 17 October 1928 Wilfrid Freeman September 1938 Group Captain Brian Edmund Baker 1953 Gp Capt N A R...
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to proceed. Hives put forward a proposal to Air Chief Marshal Sir Wilfrid Freeman (Air Member [of the Air Council] for Production and Design) with the...
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when it was desperately needed. The biography by Anthony Furze of Wilfrid Freeman, a senior official in the Ministry of Aircraft Production, discusses...
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learned that Vice-Chief of the Air Staff (VCAS) Air Chief Marshal Sir Wilfrid Freeman planned to order the change, and that the strong-willed Basil Embry...
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No. 3 Field Communications Squadron 1 April 1918 Lieutenant Colonel Wilfrid Freeman 1936 Air Commodore Bertine Sutton 1 September 1936 Air Commodore Stanley...
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Vice-Chief of the Air Staff 22 April 1940 – 4 October 1940 Succeeded by Sir Wilfrid Freeman Preceded by Sir Charles Portal Commander-in-Chief Bomber Command 1940–1942...
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manufacture of Spitfires meant that Petter was well thought of by Sir Wilfrid Freeman, chief executive officer at the Ministry of Aircraft Production (MAP)...
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including Sholto Douglas, Arthur Tedder, Philip Joubert de la Ferté, and Wilfrid Freeman. At their first series of meetings on 14 September, the Night Defence...
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4755. Barrass, Malcolm (30 November 2008). "Air Chief Marshal Sir Wilfrid Freeman". Air of Authority - A History of RAF Organisation. Retrieved 7 November...
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the Central Flying School. Also on the course were Hugh Dowding and Wilfrid Freeman while the instructors included John Tremayne Babington and John Salmond...
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Richard Peirse 4 October 1940 – 19 October 1942 Air Chief Marshal Sir Wilfrid Freeman 19 October 1942 – 21 March 1943 Air Vice-Marshal C E H Medhurst (acting)...
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T Boyd". Retrieved 29 November 2008. Indian Army List January 1915 Wilfrid Freeman: The Genius behind Allied Survival and Air Supremacy, 1939 to 1945...
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Clark-Hall, Group Captain Philip Joubert de la Ferté, Wing Commander Wilfrid Freeman, and Squadron Leader Bertine Sutton, while the first class of students...
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shoot down; the commander of the Tenth Wing RFC, Lieutenant-Colonel Wilfrid Freeman, arranged for an artillery barrage on the German trenches as a diversion...
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at Chadderton. The chief executive of MAP was Air Chief Marshal Sir Wilfrid Freeman, with his deputy Arthur Tedder, 1st Baron Tedder. In July 1941 he was...
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Military offices Preceded by Wilfrid Freeman Commandant of the RAF Staff College, Andover 1936–1939 Vacant Second World War declared Preceded by Sir John...
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January 1923 Group Captain Felton Holt 22 April 1925 Group Captain Wilfrid Freeman 24 January 1927 Group Captain (later Air Commodore) C. S. Burnett 17...
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1945–46 he was chief executive in succession to Air Chief Marshal Sir Wilfrid Freeman. He returned after the War to the private sector, but then was appointed...
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Military offices Vacant Title last held by Wilfrid Freeman Air Officer Commanding No. 2 Group 1936 Succeeded by Stanley Goble Preceded by Sir Philip Babington...
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