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  First World War.com - Who's Who - Hugh Trenchard
With war declared Trenchard was placed at the head of the nascent Royal Flying Corps, first at home and then in France in 1915; at that time the RFC was merely a branch of the army.
Later the same year, in June 1918, Trenchard was given responsibility for the organisation of the Inter-allied Independent Bomber Force, consisting of a collection of heavy RAF bombers intended to raid rail and industrial targets in Germany.
Regarded by many as 'the father of the RAF', Hugh Trenchard died on 10 February 1956 in London at the age of 83.
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 Hugh Trenchard (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab-5.cs.princeton.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-02)
Hugh Montague Trenchard was born in Taunton, England on February 3, 1873.
Trenchard returned as Chief of the Air Staff in 1919 under Winston Churchill, and remained until retiring in 1929.
On 17th July 1920, Air Marshal Sir Hugh Trenchard married Katherine Boyle, the widow of James Boyle, son of the Earl of Glasgow, at St. Margaret's Church in Westminster.
hugh-trenchard.iqnaut.net.cob-web.org:8888   (604 words)

  
 From Spitfire to Eurofighter - The RAF's Legacy
Trenchard himself disliked the term 'Father of the Royal Air Force', believing that Lieutenant General Sir David Henderson was more deserving of the epithet.
Trenchard was also very much at the centre of the development of air power during the First World War and was to remain highly influential beyond his retirement in 1930.
It is an Air Force that Trenchard would have some difficulty in recognising, but I have no doubt that he would regard the young men and women who fill our ranks with vitality and commitment as every bit the equal of those who graduated from the quite remarkable training institutions he established.
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 The Turner Logs -  Aviators - Hugh Trenchard
At the age of 39, and 6'3" tall, Major Hugh Trenchard was not considered ideal pilot material.
Trenchard was determined to transfer to the Royal Flying Corps.
Many would claim that to be one of Trenchard's "brats", an ex Halton apprentice, carried more status than to be a graduate of the RAF College at Cranwell.
www.turnerlogs.com /aviators/hughtrenchard.html   (339 words)

  
 Air Force Magazine
Trenchard believed it was vital to fight for air ascendancy, not just undertake routine patrols and reconnaissance.
Trenchard was brusque when Mitchell said he wanted to see all the Royal Flying Corps squadrons, equipment, and supplies and, of course, to hear all Trenchard could tell him about air operations.
Trenchard, as quoted by Boyle, later said, “My job was to prod, cajole, help, comfort, and will the pilots on, sometimes to their death.” His customary technique was to make frequent unannounced visits and talk straight.
www.afa.org /magazine/Feb2004/0204trench.asp   (3114 words)

  
 Trenchard, Hugh Montague Trenchard, 1st Viscount - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-02)
TRENCHARD, HUGH MONTAGUE TRENCHARD, 1ST VISCOUNT [Trenchard, Hugh Montague Trenchard, 1st Viscount] 1873-1956, British air marshal.
As chief of air staff (1918, 1919-29), Trenchard shaped the offensive air strategy (to the neglect of air defense) that the Royal Air Force adhered to into World War II.
Trenchard, Hugh Montague, 1st Viscount Trenchard of Wolfeton
www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-trenchar.html   (188 words)

  
 H M Trenchard_P
Marshal of the RAF The Viscount Trenchard of Wolfeton
Hugh could never be considered to be a scholar and his parents' desire to see him enter a military career seemed destined to failure.
Trenchard, realised that if the new service was to survive and develop air warfare to the fullest extent it had to be self supporting and fully independent of the Army and Navy.
www.rafweb.org /Biographies/Trenchard.htm   (2904 words)

  
 Hugh Trenchard, 1st Viscount Trenchard - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
During the winter of 1900, Trenchard emarked on a convalesent trip to St Moritz in Switzerland where the air was hoped to be bennificial to his lungs.
Trenchard showed the effectiveness of strategic bombing for colonial counter-insurgency by 1920's operations in Somaliland and Iraq, when poison gas was used against the rebels.
Trenchard's actions in gaining status for the RAF as a separate military branch were highly influential to U.S. General Billy Mitchell.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hugh_Trenchard   (954 words)

  
 First World War.com - The War in the Air - The Missionaries of Bombing
In the immediate aftermath of the war Hugh Trenchard, Billy Mitchell and the Italian Giulio Douhet (who had commanded Italy's first aviation unit from 1912 to 1915) all published influential papers pushing the idea that the bomber would change warfare forever.
Trenchard remarked that while there had been only seven bombing raids against Trier, there had been over one hundred alerts, with the accompanying affect on morale and production.
Trenchard commanded the RAF for ten years, from 1919 onwards, and his influence lasted well beyond that.
www.firstworldwar.com /airwar/missionaries.htm   (460 words)

  
 Trenchard Memorial Lecture
In 1912, Major Hugh Trenchard transferred at the age of 39 to the Royal Flying Corps - formed in May of that year, and after a course with a total of just over one hour's flying spread over a fortnight was awarded his wings on 31 July 1912.
Trenchard had been brought back by Churchill to be CAS in 1919.
Lord Trenchard died in February 1956 as the V-force was building up to provide the realisation of his concept of all powerful strategic bombing.
www.tgarden.demon.co.uk /writings/articles/older/trench.html   (3847 words)

  
 Janus: Selected correspondence of Marshal of the RAF 1st Lord Trenchard
Hugh Trenchard was born on 3 February 1873, the second son of Henry Montague Trenchard, solicitor, and his wife, Georgina.
Trenchard was knighted again (GCB) in January 1924 and became the first Marshal of the RAF in 1927.
Trenchard, Hugh Montague (1873-1956) 1st Viscount Trenchard of Wolfeton, Marshal of the RAF
janus.lib.cam.ac.uk /db/node.xsp?id=EAD/GBR/0014/TREN   (861 words)

  
 AIRPOWER STUDIES LESSON PLAN
Hugh Trenchard, the first chief of the RAF and its commander from 1919 to 1930, focused instead on the "will" portion of that equation.
Trenchard stated that the psychological effects of bombing outweighed the material effects at a ratio of 20 to one.
Hugh Trenchard’s influence in airpower in WWII is through his "Fatherhood" of the RAF, and the RAF doctrine manuals which largely reflected his theories.
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 Aipower Theorists—Trenchard   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-02)
Voice: Hugh Trenchard was well along in his military career when he learned to fly at age 40.
Nonetheless, Trenchard ended up in command of the Independent Air Force in France in 1918, which was created in response to the German bombing of London.
Trenchard’s ideas were at the center of RAF doctrine manuals and they were embedded in the curriculum at the RAF Staff College.
www.iwar.org.uk /military/resources/aspc/text/theory/atrnch.htm   (314 words)

  
 Tours of Scotland, my native homeland.
Hugh Dowding, the son of a schoolmaster, was born in Moffat, Scotland, on 24th April, 1882.
His old adversary, Hugh Trenchard, also told him that he had been guilty of gravely underestimating him for 26 years.
However, Air Chief Marshal Charles Portal, the new chief of the air staff, had agreed with William Sholto Douglas in the dispute over tactics and in November 1941, and Dowding was encouraged to retire from his post.
www.visitdunkeld.com /hugh-dowding.htm   (589 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Trenchard, Hugh Montague Trenchard, 1st Viscount (British And Irish History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Trenchard, Hugh Montague Trenchard, 1st Viscount, British And Irish History, Biographies
Trenchard, Hugh Montague Trenchard, 1st Viscount 1873–1956, British air marshal.
As chief of air staff (1918, 1919–29), Trenchard shaped the offensive air strategy (to the neglect of air defense) that the Royal Air Force adhered to into World War II.
reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/T/Trenchar.html   (218 words)

  
 ::Hugh Dowding::   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-02)
Hugh Dowding is considered one of the masterminds behind the victory in the Battle of Britain - one of the most prominent battles in World War Two.
During this war, he clashed with the head of the Royal Flying Corps - General Hugh Trenchard - over the issue of rest for pilots exhausted by constant flying sorties.
However, he retired from the Royal Air Force in July 1942 and was awarded a baronetcy in 1943.
www.historylearningsite.co.uk /hugh_dowding.htm   (936 words)

  
 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Trenchard,
Trenchard, Hugh Montague Trenchard, 1st Viscount TRENCHARD, HUGH MONTAGUE TRENCHARD, 1ST VISCOUNT [Trenchard, Hugh Montague Trenchard, 1st Viscount] 1873-1956, British air marshal.
Strategy may be defined as the general scheme of the conduct of a war, tactics as the planning of means to achieve strategic
Paul Trenchard and Rob Dixon report on their CIMA-funded project to develop a third way based on the usefulness of products rather than profitability.(Finance Cost Allocation)(National Blood Authority)
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 British Military Aviation in 1915 - Part 3
Colonel Hugh Trenchard assumes command of the Royal Flying Corps in France in succession to Sir David Henderson.
Trenchard was promoted to Brigadier General and quickly requested another squadron by the middle of September.
Trenchard also suggested that there should be a headquarters squadron for General Headquarters (GHQ) work and that a further squadron be provided for each Army for special work such as bombing raids.
www.rafmuseum.org.uk /milestones-of-flight/british_military/1915_3.html   (470 words)

  
 Trenchard Family Crest
Trenchard is one of the names that was brought to England in the wave of migration following the Norman Conquest of 1066.
Attorney General George Trenchard of New Jersey settled there in 1686; he was from Somerset in England, he was succeeded by Edward Trenchard of New York City.
In the Trenchard coat of arms as in all coat of arms the crest is only one element of the full armorial achievement.
houseofnames.com /xq/asp.fc/qx/trenchard-family-crest.htm?a=54323-224   (636 words)

  
 Hugh Trenchard
In the post Trenchard helped establish the Royal Air Force but he resigned from office in April 1918 after a quarrel with Lord Rothermere, the Air Secretary.
Trenchard, a great believer in strategic bombing, began to organize attacks on rail and industrial centres in Germany.
In February, 1919, Winston Churchill, Minister of War and Air, invited Trenchard to return as Chief of the Air Staff, a position he held until his retirement in 1929.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /FWWtrenchard.htm   (246 words)

  
 Air Power:The Prophets: Advocates of Strategic Bombing
Trenchard claimed that civilians "are not disciplined and it can not be expected that they will stick stolidly to their lathes and benches." During the
Gotha raids on London, the city had gone through a minor panic; many had fled to the countryside for safety, and the newspapers had run columns criticizing the government’s inability to protect the capital.
Trenchard studied the effects of British bombing attacks on towns in Germany and estimated that the psychological damage was twenty times greater than the material.
www.centennialofflight.gov /essay/Air_Power/Prophets/AP11.htm   (1196 words)

  
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Major Generals Billy Mitchell and Hugh Trenchard were convinced of the airplane’s capability to revolutionize the militaries of the United States and Britain, respectively.
Major General Hugh Trenchard (1873-1956) served in South Africa and Nigeria for the British Army near the turn of the century.
Trenchard is also remembered for helping establish the Royal Air Force, founding the Independent Air Force, and serving as Chief of the Air Staff under Winston Churchill.
faculty.washington.edu /hardyms/AS211_Background_Paper_1.doc   (705 words)

  
 Hugh Dowding
Lord Sir Hugh Caswell Tremenheere Dowding G.C.B., G.C.V.O.,C.M.G. was born in Moffat, Scotland on April 24, 1882.
He was sent to France and in 1915 was promoted to commander of 16 Squadron.
After the Battle of the Somme, Dowding clashed with General Hugh Trenchard, the commander of the RFC, over the need to rest pilots exhausted by non-stop duty.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/do/Dowding.html   (331 words)

  
 Rhetoric and Reality in Air Warfare: The Evolution of British and American Ideas about Strategic Bombing, 1914–1945   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-02)
Trenchard was investigated by the Army for his overtaxing pilot training and very high casualty rate.
By analyzing British bomb damage assessment (BDA) at the end of the war, she demonstrates that Trenchard heavily influenced BDA to justify his conduct of the war.
This report and Trenchard himself, both of which provoked discussion about the moral effects of heavy bombing, shaped the development and force structure of the Royal Air Force (RAF), which organized itself around strategic bombing during the interwar years.
www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil /airchronicles/bookrev/bibble.html   (1392 words)

  
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Trenchard Memorial Lecture: The Trenchard Vision and Its Relevance In an Age of Joint Warfare.
Hugh Trenchard, the first chief of the RAF and its commander from 1919-29, focused on the "will" portion of the postulate.
Squire discusses the work of Lord Hugh Trenchard, who is considered the Father of the Royal Air Force (RAF).
www.au.af.mil /au/aul/school/asbc/trench.htm   (423 words)

  
 Hugh Trenchard - Training Blog - Training blog
Hugh hails from Victoria, B.C. and works as a paralegal with the Provincial government.
Hugh has twice competed for Canada as an elite competitor in the World Duathlon Championships, was third at the 2003 Duathlon Championships, and was the 2002 Triathlon Canada Age-group duathlete of the year.
When Hugh is not working or training, he enjoys studying aspects of chaos/complexity theory, figurative painting, writing and singing.
www.trainharder.com /weblog/pivot/entry.php?id=1056   (605 words)

  
 Hugh M. Trenchard
His demand for high excellence in training, equipment, and performance, and his personal leadership marked him as a historic figure in air history.
His perception of air power, and the forces he organized and led, played a major role in the allied victory of the World War II.
The foundations he established gave victory to the wings of Britain and the United States in 1939-1945 when "BOOM" Trenchard came out of retirement to again serve his country.
www.allstar.fiu.edu /AERO/trenchard.htm   (337 words)

  
 Hugh Trenchard (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab-5.cs.princeton.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-02)
Hugh Trenchard is one of the topics in focus at Global Oneness.
Despite the primitive aircraft, aggressive leadership by commander Hugh Trenchard led to many brave fighting exploits and many casualties - over 700 in 1916, the rate worsening thereafter.
At the outbreak of the First World War in August 1914, the British Army was a small, professional force of 247,000 soldiers, over half of which were posted overseas in garrisons throughout the British Empire.
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 UK Commemorative Cover Hugh M. Trenchard with Information Card   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-02)
Hugh Trenchard was commissioned in the British Army in 1891, and served with distinction in the British Empire's colonial forces, becoming a courageous and respected leader.
At the outbreak of World War I, Trenchard was ordered to the position of Commandant of the Military Wing -- the Royal Flying Corps -- and commanded the First Royal Flying Corps wing in France.
His influence on air policy was quickly felt, and he was appointed General Officer in Charge of the RFC.
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 Hugh Montague Trenchard, 1st Viscount Trenchard (1873-1956), Marshal of the Royal Air Force
Hugh Montague Trenchard, 1st Viscount Trenchard (1873-1956), Marshal of the Royal Air Force
Trenchard obtained his air pilot’s certificate and was seconded to the Royal Flying Corps in 1912, becoming commandant of the Military Wing in 1914.
He commanded the RFC in France (1915-18) and served as chief of air staff (1918).
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