Marshal of the Royal Air Force William Sholto Douglas, 1st Baron Douglas of Kirtleside was a senior commander in the Royal Air Force. After serving as a pilot, then a flight commander and finally as a
Air Marshall W Sholto Douglas, CB, MC, DFC
Air Marshal Sir William Sholto Douglas, Commander-in-Chief Fighter Command (left) during a visit to No 61 OTU at Heston, November 1941
Air Chief Marshal Sir William Sholto Douglas, Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief, RAF Middle East Command (left) with Air Officer Commanding Malta, Air Marshal Sir Keith Park in the garden at HQ, Malta
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Air Chief Marshal Hugh Caswall Tremenheere Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding was a senior officer in the Royal Air Force. He was Air Officer Commanding RAF Fighter Command during the Battle of Britain and is
Sholto Douglas, 1st Baron Douglas of Kirtleside
…of the Bath on 11 July 1940. During 1940, Trafford Leigh-Mallory clashed with the head of No. 11 Group, Keith Park, and the head of Fighter Command, Hugh Dowding, over strategy in the Battle of Britain. Leigh-Mallory argued for a 'Big Wing' strategy i.e. using massed fighters to defend the United Kingdom against…
Dowding in c. 1935
Queen Elizabeth and King George VI with Dowding in 1940
Dowding (in the Bowler hat) with some of The Few
Lord Dowding laying the foundation stone of the RAF chapel, now known as St. George's Chapel of Remembrance, at RAF Biggin Hill in 1951