1893 - 1969 (75 years)
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| Name |
William Sholto (1st Baron Douglas of Kirtleside) Douglas |
| Prefix |
Marshall Of The Royal Air Force |
| Birth |
23 Dec 1893 |
Headington, Oxfordshire  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Death |
29 Oct 1969 |
Royal Tunbridge Wells, England |
| Person ID |
I147924 |
My Genealogy |
| Last Modified |
21 Nov 2021 |
| Family 3 |
Hazel Walker, b. Abt 1893 d. Yes, date unknown |
| Marriage |
1955 |
- He married thirdly Hazel Walker and they had one daughter
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| Children |
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| Family ID |
F57876 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
21 Nov 2021 |
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| Notes |
- As commander-in-chief of the Fighter Command, Douglas was responsible for rebuilding of the command's strength after the attrition of the Battle of Britain, but also for bringing it on the offensive to wrest the initiative in the air from the German Luftwaffe. He was therefore one of the main orchestrators of the only partially successful Circus offensive.
was well rewarded after the war. He was the first commander of the British Occupation Zone in Germany and in 1946 he was promoted to Marshal of the Royal Air Force, one of only two RAF officers ever to hold this rank without serving as Chief of the Air Staff. In 1948 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Douglas of Kirtleside, of Dornock in the County of Dumfries. Douglas retired in 1948 and became chairman of BEA in 1949 a post he retained until 1964.
He married, firstly, Mary Howard in 1919.1 He and Mary Howard were divorced in 1932.1 He married, secondly, Joan Leslie Denny, daughter of Colonel H. C. Denny, on 7 September 1933. He and Joan Leslie Denny were divorced in 1952. He married, thirdly, Hazel Walker, daughter of George Eric Maas Walker, on 28 February 1955. The title became extinct on his death in 1969
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