Wife of Sir Samuel Hoare, Viscount Templewood but achieved her DBE in her own right, by flying in 1927 a 12,000-mile round trip flight inaugurating the London-Cairo-Delhi air service, the first woman ever to fly such a distance. Her husband accompanied her for which he was appointed GBE. Even for the times this seems an easy way for him to pick up letters after his name.
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Lady Maud Hoare DBE
There are two versions of this plaque, identically worded, attached to either...
Airplane designed and built by Alliott Verdon Roe. The first all-British airc...
Aircraft designer and manufacturer. Born at Magdala House, Terriers Wycombe, ...
The airfield was originally opened by the Royal Flying Corps during World War...
We can't find a date for when this was first formed; it seems to have come in...
