Sir John Salmond CMG GCB CVO DSO&BAR
(1881-1968)
Royal Air Force Commander, Companion of the Distinguished Service Order (and Bar) (from 1915), Companion of The Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George (from 1917), Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (from 1918), Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (from 1931), and Marshal of the Royal Air Force (from 1933)
Died aged c. 87
Wikidata WikipediaMarshal of the Royal Air Force Sir John Maitland Salmond, GCB, CMG, CVO, DSO & Bar (17 July 1881 – 16 April 1968) was a British military officer who rose to high rank in the Royal Flying Corps and then the Royal Air Force. During the First World War he served as a squadron commander, a wing 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 in Iraq in the early 1920s when he halted a Turkish invasion and sought to put down a Kurdish uprising against King Faisal, the British-sponsored ruler of Iraq. He was Chief of the Air Staff in the early 1930s and bitterly opposed the position taken by British politicians at the World Disarmament Conference in Geneva, which would have led to the UK's complete aerial disarmament. In the event the talks broke down when Adolf Hitler withdrew from the Conference in October 1933.
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Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir John Maitland Salmond 1881-1968 RAF Commander lived here 1928-1936
27 Chester Terrace, Camden, NW1, London, United Kingdom where they lived (1928-1936)