DICKSON

Archive of 7 Autograph Letters and 5 Typed Letters Signed "Dickie" to Dennis WHEATLEY (1897-1977, Novelist) the first says he is "very sorry indeed to hear of the rotten time you have been having since February and of that bad ten days in Madrid. Joan must have been very worried. I have never had pleurisy but can imagine it is no fun! ...", 3 sides folio, 7 sides 4to., and 11 aides 8vo., 39 Hyde Park Gate and Air Ministry headed paper, 20th March 1955 to 23rd February

Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir William Forster Dickson, GCB, KBE, DSO, AFC (24 September 1898 – 12 September 1987) was a Royal Naval Air Service aviator during the First World War, a senior officer in the Royal Air Force during the inter-war years and a Royal Air Force commander during and after the Second World War. Dickson was Chief of the Air Staff in the mid-1950s, in which role his main preoccupation was the establishment of the V Force and the necessary supporting weapons, airfields and personnel. He also served as the first Chief of the Defence Staff in the late 1950s.

Item Date:  1958

Stock No:  40564      £750

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