Vice-Admiral Richard Bell Davies,, also known as Richard Bell-Davies, was a senior Royal Navy commander, naval aviator, and a First World War recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gal
Richard Bell Davies during the First World War, c. 1916–18
Air Chief Marshal Sir Richard Edmund Charles Peirse, served as a senior Royal Air Force commander.
Richard Bell Davies
…and in 1913 he was accepted into the Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS) and was appointed a squadron commander. In the early days of the war, Davies and Richard Peirse carried out a number of raids on German submarine bases at Ostend and Zeebrugge. Both were awarded the DSO: For services rendered in the aerial attack…
Peirse broadcasting over the radio during the Second World War
Portrait of Peirse commissioned by the Ministry of Information circa 1943