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Group Captain Peter Wooldridge Townsend, CVO, DSO, DFC & Bar (22 November 1914 – 19 June 1995) was a British Royal Air Force officer, flying ace, courtier and author. He was equerry to King George VI from 1944 to 1952 and held the same position for Elizabeth II from 1952 to 1953.
Ian Jon Townsend: Air Officer Commanding No. 22 Group: Flying: CBE: 22 May 2023 [30] David Cyril McLoughlin: Director of Defence Healthcare, Defence Medical Services: RAF Medical Services: CBE: 5 June 2023 [3] Jeremy J. Attridge: Director, Saudi Armed Forces Project: Flying: OBE: 20 June 2023 [30] Thomas James Patrick Burke: Air Officer ...
Alan Scott (RAF officer) Desmond J. Scott; George Douglas-Hamilton, 10th Earl of Selkirk; Frederick Sherriff; H. P. Ruffell Smith; Frank Ormond Soden; Norman Spratt; James Stagg; Maurice Michael Stephens; Whitney Straight; William Strugnell; Ronald Sugden; John Summers (RAF officer)
Group Captain Peter Townsend became the first pilot to bring down an enemy aircraft on English soil in February 1940. Medals awarded to RAF hero who became Princess Margaret’s lover fetch £ ...
The forbidden romance between Princess Margaret (b. August 1930 – February 2002) and Captain Peter Wooldridge Peter Townsend (November 1914 – June 1995) was revisited in its final chapters ...
Most famously, she fell in love in the early 1950s with Peter Townsend, a married RAF officer in the royal household. In 1952, her father died, her sister became queen, and Townsend divorced his wife. He proposed to Margaret early in the following year.
Flight Lieutenant Peter Townsend (later Group Captain) was one of three Hurricane pilots of ‘B’ flight, 43 Squadron, who shot down a Heinkel 111 of 4./KG26 on 3 February 1940, near Whitby, North Yorkshire, the first enemy aircraft to crash on English soil during World War II. His wartime record was 9 aircraft claimed destroyed (and 2 shared ...
The romance between Peter Townsend and Princess Margaret captured the public's attention in the 1950s. Details of their relationship are chronicled in early seasons of Netflix's "The Crown," and ...