Marshal of the RAF. Born Hungerford. Served in WWI first as a motorcycle despatch rider and then joined the Royal Flying Corps and became a pilot. Promoted rapidly and well-decorated. Chief of the Air Staff, 1940 - 1945, he went with Churchill to the major conferences. Promoted to Marshal of the Royal Air Force in 1944. One of the architects of victory in the WW2. Died near Chichester.
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Lord Charles Portal
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War dead, WW2
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Admiral, Viscount Samuel Hood, GCB
Naval officer. Born Somerset. Governor of of Greenwich Hospital, 1796 until his death.
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War dead, WW2
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Field Marshal Allenby
Army officer. Born Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby at Brackenhurst Hall, near Southwell, Nottinghamshire. He fought in the second Boer war and in World War I his command captured Vimy Ridge. Later he l...
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Edwd. N. Alford
Resident of the Central Ward, Hendon who served and died in WW1.
War dead, WW1
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