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Lot 432
Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir William Forster Dickson, GCB, KBE, DSO, AFC, RAF Uniform & Cap. The tunic was tailored by Gieves in April 1952 and follows the regulation for service dress. To the left breast King's crown padded Pilot wings and four rows of medal ribbons, with loops to the pocket for the wearing of orders. To each cuff, correct period individual rank lace representing the rank of Marshal of the Royal Air Force. To the shoulder straps, gilt crowned EIIR cyphers and complete with King's crown RAF brass buttons. The interior pocket with tailor's label and typed name "Sir W Dickson". Good clean condition ... Accompanied by a post WW2 King's Crown Air Officer Cap tailored by Gieves & Hawkes. Clean Condition (2 items) MRAF Sir William Forster Dickson, GCB, KBE, DSO, AFC remarkable career spanned the pioneering days of the Royal Naval Air Service of 1916 to been Chief of the Air Staff in the mid-1950s, in which role his main preoccupation was the establishment of the V Force, Britain Nuclar deterant. He was award the DSO in September 1918. On the 1st June 1954 he was promoted to the highest RAF rank that of Marshal of the Royal Air Force. He died in the RAF Hospital at Wroughton in 1987
