Marshal of the Royal Air Force Arthur William Tedder, 1st Baron Tedder, was a Royal Air Force officer. He was a pilot and squadron commander in the Royal Flying Corps in the First World War and he wen
Tedder on the Italian coast in December 1943
Tedder sitting at his desk at Air House, his official residence in Cairo, while serving as Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Middle East Forces.
A convalescent Winston Churchill meets the outgoing and incoming Supreme Commanders in the Mediterranean, Dwight D. Eisenhower, to Churchill's right, and Henry Maitland Wilson, to his left. Behind them stand (from left to right), John Whiteley, Air Marshal Arthur Tedder, Brigadier G. S. Thompson, Admiral Sir John Cunningham, unknown, Sir Harold Alexander, Captain M. L. Power, Humfrey Gale, Leslie Hollis, and Eisenhower's chief of staff, Walter Bedell Smith.
Supreme Command, Allied Expeditionary Force (SHAEF), London, 1 February 1944. Tedder sits to Eisenhower's right as Deputy Supreme Allied Commander