The Distinguished Flying Cross is the third-level military decoration awarded to officers, and since 1993 to other ranks, of the United Kingdom's Royal Air Force and other services, and formerly to of
Obverse of the decoration
Peter Townsend (RAF officer)
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Group Captain Peter Wooldridge Townsend was a British Royal Air Force officer, flying ace, courtier, and author. He served with distinction during the Second World War and, in 1944, was appointed eque
Distinguished Flying Cross (United Kingdom)
…Squadron Leader Mohinder Singh Pujji, Indian Air Force. Group Captain Peter Townsend, CVO, DSO, DFC & bar. An RAF flying ace, courtier and author, he was equerry to King George VI and Queen Elizabeth II, and also had a romance with…
Townsend in 1940
Squadron Leader Townsend of No. 85 Squadron RAF exits his Hawker Hurricane at RAF Castle Camps, July 1940
Townsend (second from left) with several other World War II aces, 1968
Headstone of the grave in the churchyard of Saint-Léger-en-Yvelines, France.