17 June 1894 Goorganga, near Proserpine, Queensland, Australia
Died
13 February 1969(1969-02-13) (aged 74) Uckfield, Sussex, England
Allegiance
Australia
Service/branch
Royal Air Force
Years of service
1915–1917 1939–1940
Rank
Squadron leader
Unit
P.D.U. (Photographic Development Unit) Royal Air Force
Commands held
P.D.U. (Photographic Development Unit) Royal Air Force
Battles/wars
First World War Second World War
Awards
Officer of the Order of the British Empire
Frederick Sidney CottonOBE (17 June 1894 – 13 February 1969) was an Australian inventor, photographer and aviation and photography pioneer, responsible for developing and promoting an early colour film process, and largely responsible for the development of photographic reconnaissance before and during World War II. He numbered among his close friends George Eastman, Ian Fleming and Winston Churchill.
Frederick SidneyCotton OBE (17 June 1894 – 13 February 1969) was an Australian inventor, photographer and aviation and photography pioneer, responsible...
Hardbacks (A & C). p. 42. ISBN 978-1-4087-0280-2. Cotton, Sidney (1969). Aviator Extraordinary: The SidneyCotton Story. Chatto & Windus. p. 169. ISBN 978-0-7011-1334-6...
with Sidney and Diane Sawyer. As Sidney, Cotton, and a recovered Gale look at Nancy's body, Mickey suddenly resurfaces but is killed by Gale and Sidney. Sidney...
secret business to fly him from Paris to the UK. This caused the officer SidneyCotton to be removed from his position. During the German occupation of France...
from very high altitudes without the camera parts freezing. In 1939, SidneyCotton and Flying Officer Maurice Longbottom of the RAF suggested that airborne...
were actually intended for covert military reconnaissance flights. SidneyCotton modified these aircraft for aerial photography and in civilian guise...
Australian aviator Frederick SidneyCotton's experience on the Western Front in WWI with high level and low-temperature flying led Cotton in 1917 to develop the...
started in April 1939 when an Australian businessman living in London, SidneyCotton, who was already engaged in aerial photographic espionage for the Deuxième...
using high-altitude, high-speed stereoscopic photography pioneered by SidneyCotton. Using specially modified and unmarked Lockheed Model 12 Electra Junior...
Press. p. 409. ISBN 0870218964. Cotton, Sidney as told to Ralph Barker. 1969. Aviator Extraordinary: The SidneyCotton Story. Chatto & Windus ISBN 0-7011-1334-0...
Publishing Ltd., 2001. ISBN 0-7524-2290-1. Cotton, Sidney as told to Ralph Barker. Aviator Extraordinary: The SidneyCotton Story. London: Chatto & Windus, 1969...
assistant to Cotton. On 23 August 1955, Cotton died at Hornsby, New South Wales. List of members of the International Swimming Hall of Fame SidneyCotton (believed...
edition, 1998. ISBN 0-7737-5990-5. Cotton, Sidney as told to Ralph Barker. Aviator Extraordinary: The SidneyCotton Story. Chatto & Windus, 1969. ISBN 0-7011-1334-0...
Australian businessman SidneyCotton just before the outbreak of war in Europe. On behalf of first French and then British intelligence, Cotton outfitted civilian...
ISBN 978-0-7195-6815-2. Cook, Andrew (2004). Ace of spies: the true story of Sidney Reilly. Stroud: Tempus Publishing. ISBN 978-0-7524-2959-5. Fink, Jesse (2023)...
the 'Heston Flight' was absorbed into the RAF, and its civilian head SidneyCotton was enlisted with the rank of Squadron Leader. On 1 November 1939, it...
an incomplete list of some of the manuscripts from the Cotton library that today form the Cotton collection of the British Library. Some manuscripts were...
vulnerability of the Blenheims and Lysanders, in October 1939 the Australian SidneyCotton, Acting Wing Commander of the newly formed and highly secret "Heston...
Scream 4. Cotton Weary, now the host of a successful talk show, is contacted by the newest Ghostface, who demands to know the whereabouts of Sidney Prescott...
Sutton Publishing ISBN 0-7509-3648-7 Cotton, Sidney as told to Ralph Barker. 1969. Aviator Extraordinary: The SidneyCotton Story. Chatto & Windus ISBN 0-7011-1334-0...
1945-12-18 , Assigned to CCWakefield &Co Ltd GB patent 574970, Frederick SidneyCotton; William Helmore, "An improved method and means for intercepting night...
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