Picture No | 11971760 |
Date | 1917 |
Description | Major-General John Maitland Salmond |
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Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir John Maitland Salmond, (1881-1968) British military officer who rose to high rank in the Royal Flying Corps and then the Royal Air Force. During the First World War he served as a squadron commander, a wing commander and then as General Officer Commanding the RAF on the Western Front towards the end of the war. In 1924, he married Monica Grenfell, elder daughter of Lord and Lady Desborough.
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Source | Photograph by Langfier, in The Sphere magazine, 27 October 1917 |
Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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