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6 unusual facts about Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet


Arthur Harris

Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet (1892–1984), known as "Bomber Harris" or "Butcher Harris", head of RAF Bomber Command during World War II

Human rights in pre-Saddam Iraq

In the 1920s, when Britain held a mandate from the League of Nations (predecessor of the United Nations), British occupational forces, under the command of Arthur Harris, used mustard gas and delayed action bombing to suppress Iraqi resistance to British rule, leading to numerous civilian casualties.

Innes Lloyd

Collaborating with authors such as Roger Milner and Don Shaw, he brought to the screen biographies from a diverse range of, often flawed, heroes ranging from Orde Wingate and Arthur "Bomber" Harris, the Campbells Donald and Malcolm, through to the first Director General of the BBC John Reith.

No. 58 Squadron RAF

It was reformed in 1924 as a heavy bomber unit on training duties, commanded from 1925 by Squadron Leader Arthur Harris, later Air Marshal "Bomber" Harris.

Operation Tigerfish

Saundby was the deputy of Air Chief Marshal Arthur Harris, Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief of RAF Bomber Command.

Second Raid on Schweinfurt

Arthur Harris, Air Officer Commanding RAF Bomber Command refused to cooperate with the Americans, believing ball bearing targets to be a false "panacea".


Bridgeman baronets

The Bridgeman Baronetcy, of Ridley in the County of Chester, was created on 12 November 1773 for Orlando Bridgeman, Member of Parliament for Horsham and younger son of the 1st Baronet, of the Great Lever creation.

Harris baronets

The Harris Baronetcy, of Chepping Wycombe in the County of Buckingham, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 24 January 1953 for the Second World War commander of RAF Bomber Command Sir Arthur Harris.

John Copley

For over 50 years Copley has been the partner of John Hugh Chadwyck-Healey (born 1922), grandson of Charles Chadwyck-Healey, 1st Baronet.

Mussolini assassination plot involving 617 squadron

The plan was derived by Air Marshal Harris and had the backing of Anthony Eden, the foreign secretary.

Thomas Dewar Weldon

He then served as Rhodes travelling fellow in 1930, a civil servant in London from 1939 to 1942, and PA to Arthur Harris in RAF Bomber Command at High Wycombe from 1942 to 1945.

Viscount Hanworth

Pollock was the fifth son of Mr George Pollock, fourth son of Sir Frederick Pollock (1st Baronet, of Hatton) (elder brother of Field Marshal Sir George Pollock, 1st Baronet, of The Khyber Pass).


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