Is "Peachy" the first RAF Navigator to be raised to the peerage?
Don't know about the peerage, but so far as knighthoods are concerned, here's my starter for ten for someone whom qualified as a Navigator who was awarded two:
Air Marshal Sir John Curtiss KCB 1981 (CB 1979); KBE 1982; FRAeS
Served War: Oxford Univ. Air Sqdn, 1942–43; Bomber Comd, 578 and 158 sqdns, 1944–45; Transport Comd, 51 and 59 sqdn, 1945–49; Training Comd, 1950–53; Fighter Comd, 29 and 5 sqdns, 1953–64; Dir, RAF Staff Coll., 1967–69; Stn Comdr RAF Bruggen, RAFG, 1970–72; Gp Capt. Ops, HQ Strike Comd, 1972–74; SASO, HQ 11 Gp, 1974–75; Dir-Gen. Organisation, RAF, 1975–77; Comdt, RAF Staff Coll., 1977–80; Air Comdr, Falklands Operations, 1982; AOC No 18 Gp, 1980–83, retd. Dir and Chief Exec., SBAC, 1984–89; Sec., Defence Inds Council, 1985–89. Mem. Exec. Cttee, Air League, 1982–93; President: Aircrew Assoc., 1987–93; Berlin Airlift Assoc., 1998–; RAF Oxford and Cambridge Soc., 1998–2005, now Pres. Emeritus; Milford-on-Sea Br., RBL, 2002–. Chm., Pathfinders Disaster Relief, 1995–2000; Chief Exec., Assoc. of Pathfinders, 1996–2000.
Looks like he earned both of them, the KBE being for the Falklands I suspect .......
Jack
PS Glad to see a sailor in Order No 5!
