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The Bader Road, in Poole, Dorset is named after Bader. Bader Walk (previously Douglas Bader Walk but renamed following public consternation) in Birmingham. Amongst other aircraft-related street names in Apley, Telford, Shropshire, is a Bader Close. A pub at Martlesham Heath, Suffolk, is named after Bader. [180]
Reach for the Sky is a 1956 British biographical film about aviator Douglas Bader, based on the 1954 biography of the same name by Paul Brickhill.The film stars Kenneth More and was directed by Lewis Gilbert.
In November 1942, Leigh-Mallory replaced Sholto Douglas as head of Fighter Command [6] and was promoted to the temporary rank of air marshal on 1 December 1942. [ 19 ] He was made a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath in January 1943 and following a tour of air and army headquarters in Africa began lobbying for a unified command of the ...
B. Douglas Bader; Derrick Bailey; Geoffrey Bailey; James R. A. Bailey; John Baker (RAF officer) John Robert Baldwin; Owen Baldwin; Alfred Ball; David Mowbray Balme
Guy Gibson's medals on display at the RAF museum. The VC is furthest to the left (click through for more information). Gibson's Victoria Cross and other medals are on display at the Royal Air Force Museum, Hendon, England. Initially Eve Gibson presented them to the Imperial War Museum. However, in 1956 she presented them to Gibson's father.
After the death of the WW2 RAF fighter pilot Douglas Bader in 1982, Johnson, Denis Crowley-Milling and Sir Hugh Dundas set up the Douglas Bader Foundation, to continue supporting disabled charities, of which Bader was a passionate supporter. [81] Johnson was also the first to recognise the skills of Robert Taylor, aviation artist, in the 1980s.
During the First and Second World Wars, the Croix de Guerre medals of France and Belgium, as well as the French Military Medal and Luxembourg War Cross, were further issued as unit citation cords, known as Fourragère. Service members could receive both the individual award and the unit cord; in the case of the later, the unit citation could ...
For services to Law and Order. (Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire) Debra Curd. Leader, Social Work Services, Swindon Borough Council. For services to Children and to Young People. (Bracknell, Berkshire) Alan Thomas Curtis. For services to Welsh Football. (Swansea, West Glamorgan) Thomas Douglas Cuthbertson. Co-founder, Brothers in Arms.