Beamont, Roland Prosper (1920–2001), air force officer and aviator, was born on 10 August 1920 at 8 Private Road, Enfield, Middlesex, the son of Lieutenant-Colonel Ernest Clement Beamont, a trade officer with the Foreign Office, and his wife, Dorothy Mary, née Haynes. Educated at ...
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Beamont, Roland Prosper (1920–2001), air force officer and aviator
Humphrey Wynn
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Beamont, Roland Prosper (1920–2001)
Maker: William Vanderson
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Roland Prosper Beamont (1920–2001) by William Vanderson, 1958 [with the English Electric P1B Lightning at Farnborough] Getty Images
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Boothman, Sir John Nelson (1901–1957)
Maker: Walter Stoneman
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Sir John Nelson Boothman (1901–1957) by Walter Stoneman, 1946 © National Portrait Gallery, London
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Boothman, Sir John Nelson (1901–1957), air force officer and aviator
Robin Woolven
Boothman, Sir John Nelson (1901–1957), air force officer and aviator, was born at Napier Road, Wembley, Middlesex, on 19 February 1901, the son of Thomas John Boothman, a railway clerk, and his wife, Mary, née Burgess. Educated at Harrow county school he was, in January 1918, too young to enlist in the British forces, so he joined the French ...
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Brackley, Herbert George (1894–1948), air force officer and airline executive
Peter J. Lyth
Brackley, Herbert George (1894–1948), air force officer and airline executive, was born in Islington, London, on 4 October 1894, the second of the seven children of George Herbert Brackley, a master tailor, and his wife, Lilian Sarah Partridge. The family later moved to ...
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Bulloch, Terence Malcolm [Terry] (1916–2014), air force officer
Graham Pitchfork
Bulloch, Terence Malcolm [Terry] (1916–2014), air force officer, was born at Montreagh, 1 Belsize Road, Lisburn, co. Antrim, on 19 February 1916, the second son, twinned with a sister, of Samuel Arthur Bulloch, linen merchant, and his wife, Elizabeth (Elsie), née...
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Cunningham, John [Cats-Eyes Cunningham] (1917–2002), aviator and businessman
Michael Fopp and Guy Revell
Cunningham, John [Cats-Eyes Cunningham] (1917–2002), aviator and businessman, was born on 27 July 1917 at Canley, 17 Castlemaine Avenue, Croydon, Surrey, the elder son and third of the four children of Arthur Gillespie Cunningham (d. 1930), company secretary of the Dunlop Rubber Company...
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Duke, Neville Frederick (1922–2007), air force officer and aviator
Norman Barfield
Duke, Neville Frederick (1922–2007), air force officer and aviator, was born on 11 January 1922 at 82 Hadlow Road, Tonbridge, Kent, the son of Frederick Herbert Duke (1881–1957), managing clerk for a corn merchant, and his wife, Jane, née Tarbit (1888–1971). Educated at ...
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Duke, Neville Frederick (1922–2007)
Maker: Charles E. Brown
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Neville Frederick Duke (1922–2007) by Charles E. Brown Royal Air Force Museum, PC 98/173/6537/5
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Maitland, Edward Maitland (1880–1921), air force officer and developer of airships and parachutes
Denis Richards
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Maitland, Edward Maitland (1880–1921), air force officer and developer of airships and parachutes, was born at 156 Westbourne Terrace, London, on 21 February 1880, the elder son of Arthur Gee (d. 1903), a farmer and later barrister and JP, of Shudy Camps Park, Cambridgeshire...
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Scott, George Herbert (1888–1930), airship commander
H. A. Jones
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Scott, George Herbert (1888–1930), airship commander, was born in Lewisham, London, on 25 May 1888, the eldest son of George Hall Scott, civil engineer, and his wife, Margaret Wilkinson. He was educated at Alton School, Plymouth, at Richmond School, Yorkshire, and at the ...
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Twiss, (Lionel) Peter (1921–2011), naval officer and test pilot
Graham Pitchfork
Twiss, (Lionel) Peter (1921–2011), naval officer and test pilot, was born at Fardels, Lindfield, Sussex, on 23 July 1921, the son of Captain (later Colonel) Dudley Cyril Twiss (1890–1962), of the first battalion, South Staffordshire Regiment, and his wife, Laura Georgina, née Chapman...
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Twiss, (Lionel) Peter (1921–2011)
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(Lionel) Peter Twiss (1921–2011) by unknown photographer © The Royal Aeronautical Society (National Aerospace Library) / Mary Evans Picture Library
