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Hugh Champion de Crespigny
Air Vice Marshal Hugh Champion de Crespigny c.1943
Born(1897-04-08)8 April 1897
Elsternwick, Australia
Died20 June 1969(1969-06-20) (aged 72)
AllegianceUnited Kingdom
Service/branchBritish Army (1914–18)
Royal Air Force (1918–45)
Years of service1915–45
RankAir Vice Marshal
CommandsNo. 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/warsFirst World War
Second World War
AwardsCompanion of the Order of the Bath
Military Cross
Distinguished Flying Cross
Mentioned in Despatches
Croix de guerre (France)

Air Vice Marshal Hugh Vivian Champion de Crespigny, 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 career

Hugh 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]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f Air of Authority – A History of RAF Organisation – Air Vice-Marshal H V Champion de Crespigny
  2. ^ News for German Socialists in England March / April 1948
  3. ^ The Peerage.com
Military offices
Preceded by Air Officer Commanding AHQ Iraq
AHQ Iraq & Persia from January 1943
February 1942 – October 1943 		Succeeded by
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