Harold Balfour, 1st Baron Balfour of Inchrye
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Harold Harington Balfour, 1st Baron Balfour of Inchrye,, was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom, and a flying ace of the First World War. As Under-Secretary of State for Air in 1944 he was instrumental in the establishment of London Heathrow Airport.
Harold Balfour, 1st Baron Balfour of Inchrye
During the Second World War, the Under-Secretary of State for Air, H. H. Balfour, questions an Air Commodore about 250-lb GP bombs, which are about to be loaded into a Bristol Blenheim Mark IV of the Advanced Air Striking Force on a snow-covered airfield in France.
Royal Naval College, Osborne
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The Royal Naval College, Osborne, was a training college for Royal Navy officer cadets on the Osborne House estate, Isle of Wight, established in 1903 and closed in 1921.
The Stable Block at Osborne House, main building of the former College
HMS Racer (1884), the college tender
The college's cricket pavilion