| 词条 | Hugh Champion de Crespigny |
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| name = Hugh Champion de Crespigny | image = Cecil Beaton Photographs- Political and Military Personalities; Crespigny, Hugh Vivian Champion de CBM2192.jpg | caption = Air Vice Marshal Hugh Champion de Crespigny c.1943 | nickname = | birth_date = {{birth date|1897|04|08|df=yes}} | death_date = {{death date and age|1969|06|20|1897|04|08|df=yes}} | birth_place = Elsternwick, Australia | death_place = | placeofburial = | allegiance = United Kingdom | branch = British Army (1914–18) Royal Air Force (1918–45) | serviceyears = 1915–45 | rank = Air Vice Marshal | unit = | commands = No. 21 (Training) Group (1943–46) AHQ Iraq (1942–43) No. 25 (Armament) Group (1939–42) No. 8 Flying Training School (1936–39) No. 2 (Indian) Wing (1930–34) No. 39 Squadron (1925–30) No. 60 Squadron (1922–24) No. 65 Squadron (1918) No. 29 Squadron (1917) | battles = First World War Second World War | awards = Companion of the Order of the Bath Military Cross Distinguished Flying Cross Mentioned in Despatches Croix de guerre (France) | relations = | laterwork = }} Air Vice Marshal Hugh Vivian Champion de Crespigny, {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|sep=,|CB|MC|DFC}} (8 April 1897 – 20 June 1969) was a senior Royal Air Force officer who commanded British Air Forces in Iraq during the Second World War. RAF careerHugh Champion de Crespigny joined the Special Reserve of the Royal Flying Corps in 1915 during the First World War.[1] He went on to be Officer Commanding No. 29 Squadron on the Western Front and then Officer Commanding No. 65 Squadron also on the Western Front.[1] After the war he went to India where he commanded No. 60 Squadron and then No. 39 Squadron and finally No. 2 (Indian) Wing.[1] He served in the Second World War as Air Officer Commanding No. 25 (Armament) Group, as Air Officer Commanding Air Headquarters Iraq and then as Air Officer Commanding No. 21 (Training) Group.[1] He retired in 1945.[1] After the war he stood as a Labour Party candidate for the British Parliament in Newark.[2] and then became Regional Commissioner for Schleswig-Holstein for the Control Commission for Germany.[1] In 1948 he was succeeded as commissioner by William Asbury and stayed in Kiel as British consul until 1956. He later lived at Vierville in Natal, South Africa.[3] References1. ^1 2 3 4 5 Air of Authority – A History of RAF Organisation – Air Vice-Marshal H V Champion de Crespigny {{s-start}}{{s-mil}}{{s-bef|before=John D'Albiac2. ^News for German Socialists in England March / April 1948 3. ^The Peerage.com As AOC British Forces in Iraq}}{{s-ttl|title={{nowrap|Air Officer Commanding AHQ Iraq}} AHQ Iraq & Persia from January 1943|years=February 1942 – October 1943}}{{s-aft|after=Robert Willock}}{{end}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Champion De Crespigny, Hugh}} 11 : 1897 births|1969 deaths|Aviators from Melbourne|Companions of the Order of the Bath|Recipients of the Military Cross|Recipients of the Croix de Guerre 1914–1918 (France)|Recipients of the Distinguished Flying Cross (United Kingdom)|Royal Air Force air marshals of World War II|Royal Flying Corps officers|British Army personnel of World War I|Royal Air Force personnel of World War I |
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