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    Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Murray Longmore, GCB, DSO, DL (8 October 1885 – 10 December 1970) was an early naval aviator, before reaching high rank in...
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    selected 57-year-old Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Longmore. The outbreak of the Second World War found Longmore an Air Chief Marshal and in charge of RAF...
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  • cricketer and journalist Arthur Longmore (1885–1970), early British naval aviator and later a senior Royal Air Force officer Dave Longmore (b. ?), British musician...
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    Marshal of the Royal Air Force Arthur William Tedder, 1st Baron Tedder, GCB (11 July 1890 – 3 June 1967) was a Scottish Royal Air Force officer and peer...
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    request was rejected by the Air Officer Commanding, Middle East, Sir Arthur Longmore. At this point in the Second World War, the situation developing in...
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    performed in a Short "Folder" by Lieutenant (later Air Chief Marshal Sir) Arthur Longmore, and in August 1915, a Short Type 184 piloted by Flight Commander Charles...
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    contingent defending the port. He requested Tedder's advice. Air Marshal Arthur Longmore cabled the Air Ministry in London. He wished to operate in greater...
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    S.64 seaplane. Gordon Bell was followed the next day by RNAS pilot Arthur Longmore, when officially testing an aerial torpedo. The success of these experiments...
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    just before the outbreak of the First World War. On 28 July 1914, Arthur Longmore dropped the first aerial torpedo, a 14-inch 810 lb torpedo, from a...
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  • Royal Navy pilots, Lieutenants Charles R. Samson, R. Gregory, and Arthur M. Longmore of the Royal Navy and Lieutenant E. L. Gerrard of the Royal Marine...
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    handed over to Air Vice Marshal Sir Arthur Longmore in early May 1940. When Italy declared war in June 1940, Longmore had just 29 squadrons numbering less...
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    Redemption, New Delhi, 20 February 1947 Capt. P. M. Longmore MC, son of Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Longmore. Joan Patricia Quirk Wavell, b. 23 April 1923...
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    Sir Thomas Longmore CB (10 October 1816 – 30 September 1895) was Surgeon-General and professor of military surgery at the Army Medical School at Netley...
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    personally known to me, whom fate has placed on the other side. [signed] Arthur Longmore Balbo's remains were buried outside Tripoli on 4 July 1940. In 1970...
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  • Command. Its headquarters was located at Lee-on-Solent. Air Marshal Sir Arthur Longmore, Air Officer Commanding (AOC) RAF Coastal Area oversaw the renaming...
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    Officer Commanding-in-Chief, RAF Middle East Command, Air Chief Marshal Arthur Longmore. The Naval Commander-in-Chief, East Indies Station would stand in for...
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  • Cross (GCB): Sir George Reid (1916), Sir Isaac Isaacs (1937), Sir Arthur Longmore (1941), Sir Edmund Hudleston (1963), Sir Wallace Kyle (1966), Sir John...
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    married to his first wife. Royal Naval Air Service Squadron Commander Arthur Longmore successfully released a 14-inch (356-mm) torpedo from a Short Admiralty...
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    Squadron (armoured cars) and led the Russian Armoured Car Division Arthur Longmore – early Naval aviator, Officer Commanding No. 3 Squadron RNAS, and...
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    Commandant of the Imperial Defence College 1935–1936 Succeeded by Sir Arthur Longmore Preceded by John Dill Director of Military Operations and Intelligence...
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    had caused "a serious reduction in our fighter force." Air Marshal Arthur Longmore cabled the Air Ministry in London. He told London that to maintain...
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  • of Training 1929–1933 Succeeded by Christopher Courtney Preceded by Arthur Longmore RAF College Commandant 1933–1934 Succeeded by Henry Cave-Browne-Cave...
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    Charlton Air Officer Commanding No. 7 Group 1923–1924 Succeeded by Arthur Longmore Preceded by J L Forbes Air Officer Commanding No. 10 Group 1924–1928...
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    vulnerable to air attack. The Air Officer Commanding in Chief, Air Marshal Arthur Longmore, was being pressured from London to send formations to Greece and to...
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    Sassoon, the Under-Secretary of State for Air and Air Commodore Sir Arthur Longmore on a tour of RAF Stations of the Mediterranean and Middle East. It...
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    Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Longmore, 13 May 1940 Air Marshal - Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder, 1 June 1941 Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder, 29 December...
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  • Command. Its headquarters was located at Lee-on-Solent. Air Marshal Sir Arthur Longmore, Air Officer Commanding (AOC) RAF Coastal Area oversaw the renaming...
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    also awarded licences to the pioneer naval aviators Wilfred Parke and Arthur Longmore. He completed flying training at Eastchurch before being appointed...
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  • was born in 1940, the son of George Arthur Worth and Janet, the daughter of Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Longmore. The Worth family have long been established...
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  • Air Officer Commander-in-Chief, Middle East - Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Longmore No. 30 Squadron RAF (Squadron Leader RA Milward/Sqn. Ldr. Shannon)...
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