HONOURED BY KING.
SIR HUGH DOWDING
(British Official 'Wireless:)
RUGBY, Sept. 30, The King has appointed Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Dowding to be a Knight Grand Cross of the -Military Division of the Order of the Bat'h. Sir Hugh Dowding is Commander-in-Clnet of the Fighter Command.
Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Doweling in the service is affectionately known as “Stuffy,” but nobody can tell how this nickname arose, tor he is a genial as well as an able man of 57. He commands the fighter aircraft, the A.A. guns and searchlights, the barrage balloons, and the Observer Corps. Sir Hugh was born at Moffat, and after Winchester he passed through Woolwich into the Royal Artillery. He served in India and elsewhere in the Empire and graduated at the Staff College at Andover. Eight or nine months before the outbreak of the war he learnt to fly, and in October. 1914. he went to France to join the R.F.C: His work there was developing the system of wireless communication between reconnaissance aircraft and batteries _ of guns. Since the war he has held various posts, and is now the most senior on the list of Air Chief Marshals.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 261, 2 October 1940, Page 8
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197HONOURED BY KING. Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 261, 2 October 1940, Page 8
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