Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir Peter Robin Harding, GCB (2 December 1933 – 19 August 2021) was a Royal Air Force officer who served as a bomber pilot in...
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Peter Harding may refer to: Sir Peter Harding (RAF officer, born 1933) (born 1933), retired Royal Air Force Chief of the Air Staff, and Chief of Defence...
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of the Defence Staff. Sir William Dickson, Sir Richard Hull and Sir Peter Harding never received a peerage. Departmental Resource Accounts 2006-7 Ministry...
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Leonard Cheshire (redirect from Leonard Cheshire (RAF officer))
(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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Geoffrey Salmond (category 1933 deaths)
William Geoffrey Hanson Salmond, KCB, KCMG, DSO (19 August 1878 – 27 April 1933) was a senior commander in the Royal Flying Corps during the First World...
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John Salmond (category King's Own Royal Regiment officers)
commander and then as General Officer Commanding the RAF on the Western Front towards the end of the war. He went on to be Air Officer Commanding British Forces...
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elapsed for officers originally commissioned in the British air services of the First World War to have risen through the ranks to RAF's senior post;...
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Edward Ellington (redirect from Edward Ellington (military officer))
create RAF Fighter Command, RAF Bomber Command, RAF Coastal Command and RAF Training Command. He then served as Inspector-General of the RAF until his...
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on, read some more." — Warren G. Harding, president of the United States (2 August 1923), to his wife, Florence Harding, who had been reading aloud a flattering...
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Charles Elworthy, Baron Elworthy (section RAF career)
Inn before he joined the Reserve of Air Force Officers as a pilot officer on probation on 14 August 1933. He was confirmed in the rank on 14 August 1934...
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Dermot Boyle (category Irish officers of the Royal Air Force)
Headquarters RAF India in April 1933 and then attended the RAF Staff College in 1936. Promoted to squadron leader on 1 October 1936, he became Officer Commanding...
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Archibald Montgomery-Massingberd (category Royal Field Artillery officers)
October 1926, was a senior British Army officer who served as Chief of the Imperial General Staff (CIGS) from 1933 to 1936. He served in the Second Boer...
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Nazi Germany (redirect from Deutsches Reich 1933 till 1945)
Greater German Reich, is a term used to describe the German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming...
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Jackson (name) (redirect from Jackson (footballer, born 1990))
Jackson (British Army officer) (born 1944), British Army Chief of the General Staff Norman Cyril Jackson (1919–1994), British RAF, recipient of the Victoria...
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Second World War Group Captain Cyril Nelson "Kit" Lowe (1891–1983), MC DFC RAF, English rugby union footballer, First World War flying ace, and supposedly...
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John Grandy (section RAF career)
from RAF Hornchurch in August 1932. He was confirmed in the rank of pilot officer on 11 September 1932 and promoted to flying officer on 11 June 1933. He...
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John Dill (category Officers of the Legion of Honour)
CMG, DSO (25 December 1881 – 4 November 1944) was a senior British Army officer with service in both the First World War and the Second World War. From...
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novelist 1 January – Sir John Stacey, RAF air chief marshal (born 1924) 2 January – Victor Carin, actor (born 1933) 3 January Princess Alice, Countess of...
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philanthropist (d. 2020) Johnny Johnson, English RAF officer (d. 2022) November 26 Tom Felleghy, Hungarian-born Italian actor (d. 2005) Françoise Gilot, French...
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(Northampton Town) (b. 1933). 17 March – Peter Bowles, English actor (Rumpole of the Bailey, The Irish R.M., Executive Stress, To the Manor Born, The Bounder)...
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physicist (born 1905) 9 August – Sir Frank Whittle, RAF officer and inventor (born 1907) 10 August – Rex Tucker, television director (born 1913) 12 August...
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gloss-white livery, ZZ336 Vespina, the Royal Air Force's (RAF) VIP Voyager KC3 returns to her home base at RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire to continue her role...
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the Royal Navy or a Marshal of the Royal Air Force in the Royal Air Force (RAF). A Field Marshal's insignia consists of two crossed batons surrounded by...
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Frederick Sykes (category Royal Flying Corps officers)
military officer and politician. Sykes was a junior officer in the 15th Hussars before becoming interested in military aviation. He was the first Officer Commanding...
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William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim (category Royal Warwickshire Fusiliers officers)
Staff Officer, Second Grade. On 1 January 1930, he was given the brevet rank of major, with formal promotion to this rank made on 19 May 1933. His performance...
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black comedy and crime drama, it follows the life of figure skater Tonya Harding and her connection to the 1994 attack on her rival Nancy Kerrigan The Immortal...
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pioneer David Evans (RAF officer) (1924–2020), Air Chief Marshal/Senior Commander in the Royal Air Force David Evans (RAAF officer) (1925–2020), Air Marshal...
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January 2020. Lasik 1998b, p. 288; Lasik 2000b, p. 154. Lasik 2000a, p. 154. Harding 2013, p. 100. Lasik 1998b, pp. 294–295. Lasik 2000a, pp. 153–157. Lasik...
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Albert Kesselring (30 November 1885 – 16 July 1960) was a German military officer and convicted war criminal who served in the Luftwaffe during World War...
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Oklahoma Elliott Roosevelt, U.S. Air Force officer and author, son of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Raised 17 February 1933, Architect's Lodge No. 519, New York...
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