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member of the distinguish service order. After victory in Europe he moved to the east while his wife was pregnant with their third child. Sadly Ivor lost his rank of commander and was fortunate enough to become the commanding officer of No.28 squadron. One of the only two spitfire squadrons still in the RAF. He continued to keep close to flying and in the early 50s became the commanding officer of No.57 squadron the third jet bomber squadrons to form in the RAF. In 1956 he was awarded the Air Force cross for a record breaking flight in a
Canberra from Ottawa to London.
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Traffic services and became the first serving officer to become a member of the board of the civil aviation authority. He was then knighted in 1975 and retired as an Air
Marshal in 1977. Since leaving the RAF he was actively engaged in civil aviation. He retired from being chairman of two major aviation companies. Ivor died on 24 January 2003, in the company of his wife of 61 years.
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His various movements are too many to catalogue and include C.O of bomber command development unit, C.O. Of RAF Bruggen, and commandant of the central flying school. In the early 70s he was, for three years in charge of the UK’s air defence group. Ivor was then placed in charge of the
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Ivor joined the Royal Air Force as a trainee pilot in early 1940 at the age of 19. Eleven months later, he was a sergeant pilot on 114 Squadron undertaking low-level daylight bombing raids in
Blenheim aircraft. He flew similar operations from Malta in 1941 with Nos 105 and 107 Squadrons and while
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