ALLIED LEADERS (3): Sir Cyril Newall
YOUNG British officer, going on A leave from India in 1911, saw for the first time a strange, bird-like structure called an aeroplane. He gave up his leave to take flying lessons and qualified as a pilot, That young officer to-day is Air Chief Marshal Sir Cyril Newall, Chief of the British Air Staff. His promotion has been one of the romances of the youngest service of the British defence forces. Sir Cyril Newall is 53, son of an Army colonel. He was born in India, studied at Sandhurst, England’s great military college, joined an infantry regiment in 1905, and was later transferred to the Indian Army. In 1914, on the outbreak of war, he went to France with No. 1 Squadron, R.A.F., with the rank of flight commander. He gained the Albert Medal for bravery in 1916 when he led a party into a Royal Flying Corps store containing 2,000 high explosive bombs and succeeded in putting out a fire which threatened to blow the store and the men to pieces. When the Air Force was made an independent unit in 1918, Sir Cyril Newall was appointed to command bombing operations against inland Ger-
man objectives to counter raids on London. He is one of the leaders who have worked to make the Air Force a mighty weapon of offence and defence, "Don’t fly low and don’t marry too early" is his advice to airmen. -_
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 1, Issue 22, 24 November 1939, Page 2
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242ALLIED LEADERS (3): Sir Cyril Newall New Zealand Listener, Volume 1, Issue 22, 24 November 1939, Page 2
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