Samuel Charles Elworthy

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Samuel Charles Elworthy, Baron Elworthy , KG , GCB , CBE , DSO , LVO , DFC , AFC (born March 23, 1911 in Timaru , New Zealand , † April 4, 1993 in Christchurch , New Zealand) was a highly decorated officer in the Royal Air Force ( RAF).

Career in the Royal Air Force

Samuel Elworthy was educated at Marlborough College and Trinity College (Cambridge) . Upon completion of his studies, he was admitted to the Lincoln's Inn Bar . In August 1933 he joined the Air Force Officers Reserve as a pilot on probation. In August 1934 he was confirmed in his rank.

Elworthy got a license as a flight officer in No. 600 Squadron RAF , which was part of the Royal Auxiliary Air Force , and flew Hawker Harts from January 1935 . In March 1936 he became a final official member of the Royal Air Force (RAF), promoted to flight officer in September and in 1937 personal assistant to Air Chief Marshal Edgar Ludlow-Hewitt , commander of the RAF Bomber Command . On September 3, 1938 he was appointed flight officer of the RAF and in January 1939 the commanding officer of No. 108 Squadron RAF in Bassingbourn , where he flew Bristol Blenheim bombers.

In the Second World War Elworthy initially served as an instructor, was temporarily appointed squadron leader on March 1, 1940 , which was confirmed as permanent in April 1942. In August 1940 he became flight commander of the 82nd RAF Squadron and in December 1940 its commanding officer. He was awarded the Air Force Cross in January 1941 and the Distinguished Flying Cross in March 1941 . On April 22, 1941, he was awarded the Distinguished Service Order because he was able to set an enemy tanker on fire despite heavy fire .

In May 1941 Elworthy switched to a staff assignment and was responsible for operational planning at the headquarters of RAF Group 2. He was promoted to Brevet - wing commander and was Mentioned in Despatches in September.1 In October 1941 he switched to a corresponding position in the staff of the Bomber Command . In May 1942 he was promoted to brevet group captain .

Elsworthy was named Wing Commander in November 1942 , and again Mentioned in Despatches on January 1, 1943. In April 1943 he was named Site Commander of RAF Waddington and in January 1944 was mentioned again in Despatches . In April 1944 he became representative of the bomber command at Marshal of the Royal Air Force Arthur Tedder, 1st Baron Tedder , who was the deputy commander in chief of the Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force . In this office he was closely involved in the planning of the operations in which the German railway lines were to be cut up. In August 1944 he was appointed Senior Air Staff Officer of RAF Group No. 5 and as such had a share in the sinking of the German battleship Tirpitz in November 1944. On February 22, 1945, he was promoted to group captain . After the war, Charles Elworthy was transferred to the staff of the Central Bombing Establishment ( RAF Marham ).

Elworthy was promoted to Commander of the Order of the British Empire on January 1, 1946 . In March 1947, he was appointed Senior Air Staff Officer with the No. 2 Indian Group. and first in command of the Royal Pakistan Air Force Station, Drigh Road (now PAF Base Faisal ) on November 1, 1947. He attended Combined Staff College from May 1949 and was promoted to Group Captain on July 1, 1949 . He was then Deputy Personnel Director in the Air Ministry from December 1949 and station commander of RAF Tangmere from December 1951 and RAF Odiham from March 1953. On July 16, 1953, he was appointed Lieutenant of the Royal Victorian Order . He became the commander of the Metropolitan Sector in December 1953. He was promoted to Air Commodore on January 1, 1956 and began studying at the Royal College of Defense Studies that same year . In January 1957 Elworthy became director of the RAF Staff College in Bracknell .

In 1957 he rose to the rank of Air Vice Marshal . Elworthy was the Deputy Chief of Air Staff ( Deputy Chief of the Air Staff ) with the rank of Air Marshal on 15 November 1959. In the New Years Honors 1960 he became a Companion of the Order of the Bath named and on 1 July 1960 for Air Marshal promoted. He became Commander-in-Chief of the British Forces Arabian Peninsular in August 1960. In the New Year Honors 1961 he was promoted to Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath . In March 1961 he was appointed high commander of the newly formed High Command Middle East in Aden. He was raised to the Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath in the 1962 New Year Honors.

Elworthy became Chief of the Air Staff on September 1, 1963. In this position he worked closely with Secretary of Defense Denis Healey in implementing the cancellation of the BAC TSR.2 supersonic reconnaissance bomber and the Armstrong Whitworth AW.681 transporter program. Elworthy was promoted to Marshal of the Royal Air Force on April 1, 1967 and became Chief of the Defense Staff on August 4, 1967. In that capacity, he was responsible for the November 1967 evacuation of Aden and the start of the riots in Northern Ireland. Elworthy retired in April 1971.

Activities outside the military

Elworthy was promoted to Life Peer on May 9, 1972 with the title Baron Elworthy , of Timaru in New Zealand and of Elworthy in the County of Somerset . He was named Constable and Governor of Windsor Castle on April 13, 1971, and in 1973 became Lord Lieutenant of Greater London . He was also the chairman of the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 , King Edward VII's Hospital for Officers and the Royal Over-Seas League, as well as the Governor of Bradfield College , Wellington College and Marlborough College .

Elworthy was promoted to Knight of the Garter on April 23, 1977. He resigned from his various offices in 1978 and returned to his native New Zealand. He died in Christchurch , New Zealand on April 4, 1993.

family

Charles Elworthy married Audrey Hutchinson in 1936. The couple had three sons and a daughter. One of his sons is the Air Commodore Timothy Elworthy KCVO CBE , who was formerly Director of Royal Travel for Queen Elizabeth II.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Probert, p. 60
  2. ↑ London Gazette . No. 33973, HMSO, London, 29 August 1933, p. 5668 ( PDF , accessed July 8, 2012, English).
  3. ↑ London Gazette . No. 34082, HMSO, London, August 28, 1934, p. 5463 ( PDF , accessed July 8, 2012, English).
  4. ↑ London Gazette . No. 34130, HMSO, London, February 5, 1935, p. 846 ( PDF , accessed July 8, 2012, English).
  5. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r Air of Authority - A History of RAF Organization Marshal of the RAF The Lord Elworthy of Timaru
  6. ↑ London Gazette . No. 34810, HMSO, London, March 12, 1940, p. 1473 ( PDF , accessed July 8, 2012, English).
  7. ↑ London Gazette . No. 35525, HMSO, London, April 14, 1942, p. 1649 ( PDF , accessed July 8, 2012, English).
  8. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 35029, HMSO, London, December 31, 1940, p. 33 ( PDF , accessed July 8, 2012, English).
  9. ↑ London Gazette . No. 35097, HMSO, London, March 7, 1941, p. 1370 ( PDF , accessed July 8, 2012, English).
  10. ↑ London Gazette . No. 35142, HMSO, London, April 22, 1941, p. 2296 ( PDF , accessed July 8, 2012, English).
  11. ↑ London Gazette . No. 35270, HMSO, London, September 9, 1941, p. 5219 ( PDF , accessed July 8, 2012, English).
  12. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 35284, HMSO, London, 23 September 1941, p. 5570 ( PDF , accessed on 8 July 2012, English).
  13. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 35864, HMSO, London, January 12, 1943, p. 332 ( PDF , accessed July 8, 2012, English).
  14. ↑ London Gazette . No. 35841, HMSO, London, December 29, 1942, p. 35 ( PDF , accessed July 8, 2012, English).
  15. ↑ London Gazette . No. 36329, HMSO, London, January 11, 1944, p. 287 ( PDF , accessed July 8, 2012, English).
  16. ↑ a b Probert, p. 61
  17. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 37007, HMSO, London, March 27, 1945, p. 1723 ( PDF , accessed July 8, 2012, English).
  18. ^ PAF base Faisal . Global Security. Retrieved June 10, 2012.
  19. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 38653, HMSO, London, July 1, 1949, p. 3219 ( PDF , accessed July 8, 2012, English).
  20. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 39912, HMSO, London, 14 July 1953, p. 3917 ( PDF , accessed on 8 July 2012, English).
  21. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 40993, HMSO, London, February 1, 1957, p. 810 ( PDF , accessed July 8, 2012, English).
  22. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 41111, HMSO, London, June 25, 1957, p. 3859 ( PDF , accessed July 8, 2012, English).
  23. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 41876, HMSO, London, November 20, 1959, p. 7447 ( PDF , accessed July 8, 2012, English).
  24. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 41909, HMSO, London, December 29, 1959, p. 3 ( PDF , accessed July 8, 2012, English).
  25. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 42080, HMSO, London, June 28, 1960, p. 4577 ( PDF , accessed July 8, 2012, English).
  26. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 42231, HMSO, London, December 27, 1960, p. 8891 ( PDF , accessed July 8, 2012, English).
  27. ↑ London Gazette . No. 42552, HMSO, London, December 29, 1961, p. 3 ( PDF , accessed July 8, 2012, English).
  28. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 42924, HMSO, London, February 15, 1963, p. 1615 ( PDF , accessed July 8, 2012, English).
  29. ↑ a b Probert, p. 63
  30. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 44275, HMSO, London, March 23, 1967, p. 3375 ( PDF , accessed July 8, 2012, English).
  31. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 44376, HMSO, London, July 28, 1967, p. 8445 ( PDF , accessed July 8, 2012, English).
  32. ↑ London Gazette . No. 45668, HMSO, London, May 11, 1972, p. 5627 ( PDF , accessed July 8, 2012, English).
  33. ↑ London Gazette . No. 45343, HMSO, London, April 15, 1971, p. 3659 ( PDF , accessed July 8, 2012, English).
  34. ↑ London Gazette . No. 47207, HMSO, London, April 26, 1977, p. 5631 ( PDF , accessed July 8, 2012, English).
  35. ^ Elworthy, (Samuel) Charles, Baron Elworthy in: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
  36. ↑ ibid.
  37. ^ Air Commodore the Hon. Sir Timothy Elworthy, KCVO, CBE . Debrett's People of Today. Archived from the original on August 15, 2012. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved June 10, 2012. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.debretts.com
predecessor Office successor
Sir Thomas Pike Chief of the Air Staff
1963-1967 		Sir John Grandy
Sir Richard Hull Chief of the Defense Staff
1967-1971 		Sir Peter Hill-Norton
personal data
SURNAME Elworthy, Charles, Baron Elworthy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Elworthy, Samuel Charles Baron Elworthy; Elworthy, Samuel Charles Baron Elworthy of Timaru in New Zealand and of Elworthy in the County of Somerset
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British officer in the RAF
DATE OF BIRTH March 23, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Timaru , New Zealand
DATE OF DEATH April 4, 1993
Place of death Christchurch , New Zealand