Christopher Hartley (RAF officer)
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Air Marshal Sir Christopher Harold Hartley KCB CBE DFC AFC (31 January 1913 - 29 July 1998) was a senior Royal Air Force officer who became Deputy Chief of the Air Staff.
RAF career
Educated at Eton College and Balliol College, Oxford, Hartley joined the Royal Air Force in 1938.[1] He served in World War II as a pilot and then as Assistant Director of Intelligence (Technical).[1] After the war he became Chief of Staff at Headquarters No 12 (Fighter) Group.[1] He went on to be Air Officer Commanding No. 12 Group in 1959, Assistant Chief of the Air Staff (Operational Requirements) in 1961 and Deputy Chief of the Air Staff in 1963 before being made Controllor of Aircraft in 1967 and retiring in 1970.[1]
Family
In 1937 he married Anne Sitwell.[2] Following the dissolution of his first marriage, he married Margaret Watson in 1944; they had two sons.[2]
References
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Hartley, Christpher |
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31 January 1913 |
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Date of death |
29 July 1998 |
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Categories: - 1913 births
- 1998 deaths
- Old Etonians
- Alumni of Balliol College, Oxford
- Knights Commander of the Order of the Bath
- Commanders of the Order of the British Empire
- Recipients of the Distinguished Flying Cross (United Kingdom)
- Recipients of the Air Force Cross (United Kingdom)
- Marshals of the Royal Air Force
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