Charles Portal, 1st Viscount Portal of Hungerford
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Marshal of the Royal Air Force Charles Frederick Algernon Portal, 1st Viscount Portal of Hungerford, was a senior Royal Air Force officer. He served as a bomber pilot in the First World War, and rose to become first a flight commander and then a squadron commander, flying light bombers on the Western Front.
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The Yalta Conference. Portal is shown standing behind Churchill.
Seated in May 1943 around a conference table aboard the RMS Queen Mary are, left to right: Air Marshal Sir Charles Portal, Admiral of the Fleet Sir Dudley Pound, General Sir Alan Brooke, Mr Winston Churchill. Prime Minister Churchill is presiding over the meeting at the end of the table.
St. Mary's parish church and cemetery, in Funtington, West Sussex, where Lord Portal of Hungerford's ashes are buried.Awards 14
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Dominik DukaAlso won Grand cross of the Order of the White Lion
Augustin BeaAlso won Grand Cross of the Order of George I
Ivan Yefimovich PetrovAlso won Czechoslovak War Cross 1939-1945
Han Seung-sooAlso won Grand Cross of the Order of the Crown
Pierre PflimlinAlso won Croix de Guerre
Neelie KroesAlso won Grand Cross of the Order of Orange-NassauAbout this person
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United KingdomCategory
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Scientist
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1893 to 1971 · aged 77
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