When the company folded Draper sought an interview with Air Marshal Hugh Trenchard and was granted a commission in the RAF.
The wing's first commander was Hugh Trenchard who had been appointed a few days earlier.
During November 1907 to spring 1908, an expedition of the Southern Nigeria Regiment led by Lieutenant-Colonel Hugh Trenchard's came into contact with the Tiv.
Hugh Masekela | Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma | Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson | Viscount | Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener | Vickers Viscount | Hugh Jackman | Hugh Grant | Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis | 1st United States Congress | Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts | Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein | William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley | Hugh Laurie | Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer | George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham | Hugh Hefner | William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe | Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford | Hugh | William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham | viscount | Hugh O'Brian | Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister | Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell | John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon | Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux | Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset | Robert, 1st Earl of Gloucester | Hugh Grosvenor, 2nd Duke of Westminster |
Trenchard served in the 4th Battalion, The Royal Green Jackets from 1972 to 1980, reaching the rank of Captain.
Prior theories of bombing were developed by Italian General Giulio Douhet, British Sir Hugh Trenchard and American Colonel Billy Mitchell, each of whom advocated bombing an enemy's population centers as a method of shortening wars and thus saving more lives than were taken.