Henry Wrigley
Royal Australian Air Force senior commander (1892-1987) · Australia · On the map · Died at 95
Air Vice Marshal Henry Neilson Wrigley, CBE, DFC, AFC was a senior commander in the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF). A pioneering flyer and aviation scholar, he piloted the first trans-Australia flight from Melbourne to Darwin in 1919, and afterwards laid the groundwork for the RAAF's air power doctrine.
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Lieutenant Wrigley at Central Flying School, Point Cook, 1916
Captain Wrigley (right) with Sergeant Murphy, 1919
B.E.2 piloted by Wrigley on his pioneering trans-Australia journey with Murphy in 1919
Air Vice Marshal Wrigley (left, front) as Air Member for Personnel, inspecting a graduation class of WAAAF personnel, June 1942
Wrigley as AOC Overseas HQ visiting No. 450 Squadron in Sicily, September 1943
Wrigley (left) with Brigadier C. F. Langley and Lady Somers at the opening of Somers House, a Red Cross Club for repatriated prisoners of war, in May 1945
Henry Wrigley, 1917Awards
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During World War I, Wrigley joined the Australian Flying Corps and saw combat with No. 3 Squadron on the Western Front, earning the Distinguished Flying Cross; he later commanded the unit and published a history of its wartime exploits. He was awarded the Air Force Cross for his 1919 cross-country flight.