Victoria Cross Member of the Order of Merit Distinguished Service Order & Two Bars Distinguished Flying Cross Mentioned in Despatches
Spouse(s)
Constance Binney
(m. 1941; div. 1951)
Sue Ryder
(m. 1959)
Children
2
Relations
Geoffrey Chevalier Cheshire (father)
Other work
Humanitarian
Geoffrey Leonard Cheshire, Baron Cheshire, VC, OM, DSO & Two Bars, DFC (7 September 1917 – 31 July 1992) was a highly decorated Royal Air Force (RAF) pilot and group captain during the Second World War, and a philanthropist.
Among the honours Cheshire received as a pilot was the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. He was the youngest group captain in the RAF and one of the most highly decorated pilots of the war.
After the war he founded a nursing home that grew into the charity Leonard Cheshire Disability. He became known for his work in conflict resolution. In 1991 he was created a life peer in recognition of his charitable work.[1] He is under consideration for beatification in the Roman Catholic Church.[2]
^"No. 52563". The London Gazette (Supplement). 15 June 1991. p. 1.
Geoffrey LeonardCheshire, Baron Cheshire, VC, OM, DSO & Two Bars, DFC (7 September 1917 – 31 July 1992) was a highly decorated Royal Air Force (RAF) pilot...
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that finally sank the German battleship Tirpitz in 1944. He succeeded LeonardCheshire as commander of the famous 617 Squadron and with six gallantry decorations...
Press. "Park House Hotel". LeonardCheshire Disability. Retrieved 5 July 2018. "Park House Hotel update". LeonardCheshire Foundation. Retrieved 27 May...
award has been bestowed multiple times. In the example, "Group Captain LeonardCheshire, VC, OM, DSO and two bars, DFC", "DSO and two bars" means that the...
licensed it to the LeonardCheshire Foundation for a trial period. The initial idea of the founder, Group Captain LeonardCheshire, was to use it as a...
Director-General of the LeonardCheshire Foundation from 1998 to 2008; during that period the charity changed its name to LeonardCheshire Disability. The son...
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Leonard Barstow, killed fighting in Kūt in early 1917 whilst on attachment to the 36th Sikhs and Primrose Cheshire, mother of Group Captain Leonard Cheshire...
1983), British actor LeonardCheshire, Baron Cheshire (1917–1992), recipient of the Victoria Cross and founder of the Cheshire Foundation Oliver Churchill...
patron of disability charity Scope. She is also Global Ambassador for LeonardCheshire and on the special advisory board for Human Rights Watch. "OK Magazine"...
War, married the British Royal Air Force pilot, Geoffrey LeonardCheshire, later, Baron Cheshire, who was twenty years her junior. However, the marriage...
small group of pilots throughout history to become an "ace in a day". LeonardCheshire VC – World War II bomber pilot and charity worker Walter Churchill...
Yale School of Public Health to take the LeonardCheshire Chair and become director of the LeonardCheshire Disability Research Centre at the University...
Bomber Command) considered it essential. Squadron commanders such as LeonardCheshire viewed it as justified in a desperate situation. RAF psychiatrists...
operator/air gunner and serving with No. 76 Squadron RAF under the command of LeonardCheshire. On the night of 23/24 September 1942, his Handley Page Halifax DT508...
some of these missions, as did the British observer Group Captain LeonardCheshire. Four Little Boy pre-assemblies, L-1, L-2, L-5 and L-6 were expended...
College, Oxford. At Oxford he qualified in law. His best friend there, LeonardCheshire, was awarded the VC in the Second World War. Randle married Mavis Ellen...
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