Geoffrey Salmond
Royal Air Force air marshals
Died when: 54 years 251 days (656 months)Star Sign: Leo
Air Chief Marshal Sir William Geoffrey Hanson Salmond, KCB, KCMG, DSO (19 August 1878 – 27 April 1933) was a senior commander in the Royal Flying Corps during the First World War.
Remaining in the Royal Air Force after the war, he held senior appointments in the Middle East, Great Britain and India.
In late 1928 and early 1929, he directed the evacuation from Kabul of British embassy staff and others, by air.In 1933, Salmond served as Chief of the Air Staff for only a matter of days before being taken ill and subsequently dying from cancer.
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