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Collections - Portraits Soldiers of the Regiment Sir John Salmond, GCB, CMG, CVO, DSO, DCL, LLD, The King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, 1901-1912, Marshal of the Royal Air Force, 1930-1933.
Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir John Maitland Salmond (1881-1968).
Joined the Royal Flying Corps at the beginning of the First World War,
he was promoted Director General of Military Aeronautics at the War
Office in 1917. At 36, he was the youngest ever member of the Army
Council and in 1931 became Marshal of the Royal Air Force. He came out
of retirement to join the Second World War Effort.
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