A Winged Gunner
The life and times of Air Commodore Andrew James Wray Geddes CBE DSO RAF 1906 – 1988
Air Commodore Andrew James Wray Geddes CBE DSO LoM EM RAF was probably the only British officer who retired as a captain in the Royal Artillery and an Air Commodore in the Royal Air Force.
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| ISBN/EAN | 9789083086033 |
| Auteur | Hans Onderwater |
| Uitgever | Vrije Uitgevers, De |
| Taal | Engels |
| Uitvoering | Gebonden in harde band |
| Pagina's | 392 |
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Hans Onderwater MBE (1946) is a historian, researcher and author from the Netherlands. He was a teacher and a member of the National Reserve Corps of the Royal Netherlands Army for 40 and 30 years respectively. Hans is also the historian of No.II (Army Co-operation) Squadron, the oldest fixed-wing Squadron in the world. He wrote three books about this famous RAF Squadron. As the secretary of the Food & Freedom Foundation Hans was involved in the commemorations of Operations Manna and Chowhound, the Allied food drops over starving Holland in April and May 1945. Hans was secretary of the Netherlands Coastal Defence Museum, governor of the War and Resistance Museum in Rotterdam and chairman of the Documentation Group 40-45. Hans identified several airmen who were buried. He also found the next of kin and arranged for visits to the graves and crash sites of their loved ones. For his research, his many publications and much other work Hans did in the service of the Netherlands, HM Queen Beatrix made him a member of the Order of Oranje-Nassau. In January 2017 HM Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain honoured with the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire. Since 1974 he has written 27 books about World War Two, of which a number were also published in English. He also co-operated in the making of a number of documentary films in Canada and the United Kingdom. Hans is married to Marjoan since 1970. They live in Barendrecht, not far from Rotterdam.