Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve Personnel of World War II - Leonard Cheshire, Eric Lock, Billy Fiske, Dennis Wheatley, William Reid (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 39. Chapters: Leonard Cheshire, Eric Lock, Billy Fiske, Dennis Wheatley, William Reid, Robert Boothby, Baron Boothby, Charles George Gass, Rowland George, Reginald Tate, Norman Cyril Jackson, Roger Winlaw, Jock Colville, Percy MacKenzie, Neil Cameron, Baron Cameron of Balhousie, John Cruickshank, Robert Venables Vernon Harcourt, Ernest Millington, Eric Simms, Kenneth Campbell, Arthur Louis Aaron, John Yates, Maurice Laing, John Samuel Rowlands, Cyril Joe Barton, Frederick Campling, Frank Beswick, Baron Beswick, George Bellew, Cledwyn Hughes, Baron Cledwyn of Penrhos, Dinghy Young, Francis James Davies, John Hill, Robert Anthony Maurice Palmer, Ray Holmes, Noble Frankland, George Thompson, Leslie Thomas Manser, Douglas Webb, Brian Stanbridge, Ian Orr-Ewing, Baron Orr-Ewing, Frederick William Palmer, John Mastel, Thomas Chaloner, 2nd Baron Gisborough, Sir Stephen Bull, 2nd Baronet, Napier Sturt, 3rd Baron Alington, Richard de Yarburgh-Bateson, 6th Baron Deramore, George Currie, Stanley Betts, Sydney Hall Evans, John Astor, George Baillie-Hamilton, 12th Earl of Haddington, Hubert Dinwoodie, George Noakes, Lord George Wellesley, Ronald Goodchild, Francis Cocks, Michael Addison, 3rd Viscount Addison, Robert Martineau, Hilary Martin Connop Price, Eric Wall, David Saunders-Davies, Robert Gordon, Gerald Colin, Graham Leslie Parish, Eric Bullus. Excerpt: Group Captain Geoffrey Leonard Cheshire, Baron Cheshire, VC, OM, DSO and Two Bars, DFC (7 September 1917 - 31 July 1992) was a highly decorated British RAF pilot during the Second World War. Among the honours he received as a bomber pilot is the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. After the war, he became a charity worker, setting up the Leonard Cheshire Disability as well as ...