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Public and Political: General: Patronage Royal Aeronautical - Royal Automobile., 1945 - Apr 1952

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/324

Scope and Contents

File includes correspondence with: The Royal Aeronautical Society, particularly Major G P Bulman, President, Lord Brabazon of Tara (2) on message to conference; The Royal Air Force Benevolent Fund, particularly Air Vice Marshal Sir John Cordingley (14), Lord Riverdale, Sir Archibald Sinclair (later Lord Thurso) (2) and Marshal of the RAF Lord Portal of Hungerford, on broadcast appeal on the BBC's "The Week's Good Cause", with analysis of replies to appeal and film "The Robin gets its Wings" (filmed at Chartwell), with letter from Sir Alexander Korda on the distribution of the film, and letters from Lord Woolton, Conservative Party Chairman, and Duncan Sandys advising against the film being shown, 1951-52; Air Marshal Sir Alan Lees, on portrait for the Royal Air Force Club, London, 1950; The Royal Air Forces Association: Riviera Branch, France, Southport and District Branch, 1951, Uxbridge Branch, 1951; Squadron Leader Albert Cooper, MP, Ilford and Woodford Branch 1945-1950, with programme for Battle of Britain Week, 1949, Air Commodore Vere Harvey MP, Edward Shackleton MP and Ernest Kinghorn MP, House of Commons Branch, 1950, Oxted Branch, 1949, Air Marshal Sir John Baker, Chislehurst and Sidcup Branch, 1949, Air Marshal Sir Robert Saundby, (2) on Festival of Reunion at the Royal Albert Hall, 1948 and proposed portrait of WSC by Edward Seago (refused), Sir Rupert de la Bere MP, on Evesham Branch, 1948; Max Aitken MP on Paris Branch, 1948; 615 (County of Surrey) Squadron, Royal Auxiliary Air Force, (Churchill's Own) on WSC's activities as Honorary Air Commodore, including General Sir Robert Haining, Territorial and Auxiliary Forces Association of the County of Surrey, on appointment of Flight Lieutenant Frederick Sowrey to command the Squadron, 1951, Squadron Leader Neville Duke, Squadron Commander, 1951 (3), Flight Lieutenant Robert Shillingford, Squadron Adjutant, 1951 (5), Squadron Leader R G Kellett, Squadron Commander, 1951, Air Commodore T N McEvoy, on resignation of Wing Commander Peter Devitt as Squadron Commander, 1950, Wing Commander Peter Devitt, Squadron Commander, 1949-50 (7), Arthur Henderson MP, Secretary of State for Air, on re-appointment as Honorary Air Commodore of 615 Squadron, 1949; Sir Malcolm Fraser, (3) on appointment of Squadron Leader Ronald Kellett as c/o 615 Squadron, 1947, and Wing Commander Peter Devitt, to succeed Squadron Leader Barker as c/o 1949, with Kellett and Devitt's record of service, Squadron Leader Ronald Kellett, Squadron Commander (15), 1946-48, with reports on progress of the Squadron, Air Commodore Vere Harvey MP (2), on reunion dinner, 1946, and asking WSC to sit for portrait for 615 Squadron by Thomas Dugdale RA (refused), 1947, Philip Noel-Baker, Secretary of State for Air, on WSC's visit to 615 Squadron at Biggin Hill, 1947; Marshal of the RAF Lord Tedder, (4) Chief of the Air Staff on acquisition of Town Headquarters for 615 Squadron, 1946-47; Air Chief Marshal Sir Keith Park, Allied Air Commander in Chief, South East Asia, (2) and Harold Macmillan (later Lord Stockton), Secretary of State for Air, on the disbandment of 615 Squadron in Burma [later Myanmar], to enable it to be re-established in Britain as an Auxiliary Air Force Squadron, 1945; The Royal Automobile Club - Membership Cards 1947-49.

Dates

  • Creation: 1945 - Apr 1952

Conditions Governing Access

Open

Extent

1 file(s) (1 unbound file, 495 items)

Language of Materials

English

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Repository Details

Part of the Churchill Archives Centre Repository

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