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Squadron Leader Charles John Wharton Darwin DSO RAF (12 December 1894 – 26 December 1941) was a First World War flying ace credited with five aerial victories...

of the naturalist. Charles Galton Darwin (1887–1962), English physicist, grandson of the naturalist. Charles Darwin (RAF officer) (1894–1941), First...

War. He was a son of the mathematician George Howard Darwin and a grandson of Charles Darwin. Darwin was born at Newnham Grange in Cambridge, England into...

company. The Darwin and Wedgwood families were on friendly terms for much of their history and members intermarried, notably Charles Darwin, who married...

became the inaugural commanding officer of No. 12 (General Purpose) Squadron at the newly established RAAF Station Darwin in Northern Australia. He was...

Samuel Charles Elworthy, Baron Elworthy, KG, GCB, CBE, DSO, LVO, DFC, AFC (23 March 1911 – 4 April 1993) was a New Zealand-born senior officer in the...

RAF Ternhill on 24 June 1919. The squadron had seven aces, in Arthur Vigers DFC, Leslie Hollinghurst, Henry Biziou, Joseph Callaghan, Charles Darwin,...

Lord Chief Justice Sir Nicolas Tindal, Erasmus Darwin, and Charles Worsley. His father and uncle, Charles Tindal-Carill-Worsley, had both served on the...

Squadron RAF No. 3 Squadron RAF No. 10 Squadron RAF No. 17 Squadron RAF No. 22 Squadron RAF No. 32 Squadron RAF No. 39 Squadron RAF No. 41 Squadron RAF No....

made by RAF Spitfires were flown by 60 Squadron Mk XVIIIs over Malaya on 1 January 1951. The first Spitfire I to enter service with the RAF arrived at...

commissioned into the Royal Air Force (RAF) in March 1947. He flew de Havilland Vampire jet fighters as commanding officer of No. 54 Squadron in 1949, and then...

British army officer and former Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe Air Marshal Sir Charles Steele, former Commander-in-Chief of RAF Coastal Command...

Timor Sea Just two days after leaving RAF Mildenhall Scott and Black touched down on Australian soil in Darwin; Scott was found by race officials lying...

Finucane amongst his colleagues, was an Irish Second World War Royal Air Force (RAF) fighter pilot and flying ace—defined as an aviator credited with five or...

1871. They have since become extinct, but are still on Staats Island Charles Darwin surveyed the area's wildlife, while on HMS Beagle. The first permanent...

"prisoner of war". For details of RAF rank abbreviations, see RAF Commissioned Officer Ranks and RAF Non-Commissioned Officer Ranks. For details of FAA rank...

Archaeology Officer of the Ordnance Survey Air Vice-Marshal Sir William Cushion, RAF and BOAC Charles Galton Darwin F.R.S., grandson of Charles Darwin Karl Brooks...

War Medal. During World War II he volunteered for the RAF Volunteer Reserve as a Pilot Officer. He was promoted to Flight lieutenant and then Squadron...

commodore. He became Air Officer Commanding North-Western Area in March 1942, following the first Japanese air raids on Darwin, Northern Territory. Personally...

Officers or Officers in Charge at Ports Abroad". Navy List. London England: HM Stationery Office. p. 700. Keynes 2001, pp. 431–432 "Charles Darwin's ecological...