For Scottish academic and theologian, see Cecil Weir.
Cecil Thomas (Ginger) Weir
Born
(1913-04-02)2 April 1913 Glasgow, Scotland
Died
5 August 1965(1965-08-05) (aged 52) Washington, D.C., United States
Allegiance
United Kingdom
Service/branch
Royal Air Force
Years of service
1933–1965
Rank
Air Vice-Marshal
Service number
33075
Commands held
Joint Warfare Establishment School of Land/Air Warfare No. 61 Squadron RAF
Battles/wars
World War II
Awards
Companion of the Order of the Bath Commander of the Order of the British Empire Distinguished Flying Cross King's Commendation for Valuable Service in the Air Mentioned in Despatches (2)
Air Vice-Marshal Cecil Thomas (Ginger) Weir, CB, CBE, DFC (2 April 1913 – 5 August 1965) was an officer in the Royal Air Force. During the Second World War he served in RAF Bomber Command. He was taken prisoner after his aircraft was hit by a bomb from another aircraft during a raid on the Osnabruck Canal in November 1944 and was imprisoned in Stalag Luft I. He was in charge of the Operation Buffalo British nuclear tests at Maralinga in Australia in 1956, and air task group commander for the Operation Grapple nuclear tests at Christmas Island in 1957. In 1963 he became the first commandant of the Joint Warfare Establishment.
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(17 June 1978). Thomas Cromwell: Tudor Minister. Springer. p. 143. ISBN 9781349016648. Retrieved 14 January 2018 – via Google Books. Weir 1991, pp. 419–20...
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Cecil, later Earl of Salisbury, ably assisted by the experienced Thomas Egerton, whom James made Baron Ellesmere and Lord Chancellor, and by Thomas Sackville...
the fall of 2018. Dolby was born Thomas Morgan Robertson in London, England,[citation needed] to (Theodosia) Cecil, née Spring Rice (1921–1984) and Martin...
Renaissance humanist Anthony Cooke. His mother's sister was married to William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, making Burghley Bacon's uncle. Biographers believe...
Henry VIII; Alison Weir (1996) Children of England; David Starkey (2000) Elizabeth; Porter 2011 Most biographers of Catherine, Thomas Seymour, or Elizabeth...
and one of the top guys infects his toe on a petrified kelp pod. Guests: Cecil Fielder, Liz Masakayan, Les Moonves 10 10 "The Client's Best Interest" Mike...
works of François Truffaut (The Story of Adele H., Small Change), Peter Weir (The Cars That Ate Paris), Federico Fellini (Amarcord), Joseph Losey (The...
Egoyan has called "an alternative to the studio system". Director Peter Weir cast him as one of the leads in the World War I drama Gallipoli (1981), which...
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