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Property	Value
rdf:type	Military Award
rdfs:label	Distinguished Flying Cross (United Kingdom)
rdfs:comment	The Distinguished Flying Cross is a military decoration awarded to personnel of the United Kingdom's Royal Air Force and other services, and formerly to officers of other Commonwealth countries, for "an act or acts of valour, courage or devotion to duty whilst flying in active operations against the enemy".
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Status	Currently awarded.
Name	Distinguished Flying Cross
Type	Military decoration.
Caption	Obverse of the medal. Ribbon: 30mm, diagonal alternate stripes of white and deep purple.
eligibility	British, Commonwealth, and allied forces
awarded by	United Kingdom and Commonwealth
higher	Conspicuous Gallantry Cross
Established	1918-06-03
Lower	dbkwik:resource/wbZhyhjrofou9DtAWBnSOw==
for	... gallantry during active operations against the enemy.
same	dbkwik:resource/QBcq9yZPSZhYUPx_jzoQiA== Distinguished Service Cross (United Kingdom)
abstract	The Distinguished Flying Cross is a military decoration awarded to personnel of the United Kingdom's Royal Air Force and other services, and formerly to officers of other Commonwealth countries, for "an act or acts of valour, courage or devotion to duty whilst flying in active operations against the enemy".
is honorific suffix of	Eric Simms (ornithologist) James Rowland (RAAF officer) John Lloyd Waddy Robert Saundby Wallace Kyle Art Donahue
is notable commanders of	Sri Lanka Air Force
is Awards of	William McKenzie Thomson Harry King Goode Walter M. Carlaw George Bennions Denis Crowley-Milling Norman Roberts William Tipton John Edmund Greene John Lerew George Goodman (RAF officer) Hugh Pughe Lloyd George Pirie (RAF officer) Thomas G. Rae Leon W. Johnson Clement G. Boothroyd William Gordon Claxton Cecil Bouchier Thomas Pike James Wellwood George Chesworth Francis James Ralph Charles Scherf Charles Lavers William Frederick James Harvey Phil Lamason Robert McLaughlin (aviator) Alec Cunningham-Reid Tony Gaze Thomas Williams (RAF officer) Robert Leith-Macgregor Gordon Cochrane (pilot) Gerald Maxwell Maurice Michael Stephens Andrew McPherson (RAF officer) Sholto Douglas, 1st Baron Douglas of Kirtleside John Gillanders Cedric Howell Philip Holligan Harold Bird-Wilson Thomas Barkell Anthony Norman Davis Thomas Sinclair Harrison Richard Jeffries Dawes Les Clisby George Thomson (RAF officer) Gerald Stapleton James Rowland (RAAF officer) Ronald Ivelaw-Chapman Cecil Frederick King Russell Foskett Harold Leslie Edwards John Daley (aviator) George Beurling Robert Leckie (RCAF officer) Frank Ormond Soden Tony Iveson Geoffrey Allard Chesley G. Peterson Arnold Walker (RAF officer) Walter Kirk Dennis Latimer Harold Mellings John Barraclough (RAF officer) Hugh Walmsley Alfred Haines Charles Hickey Ian Dougald McLachlan Willie McKnight Edgar McCloughry Samuel Frederick Henry Thompson Arthur Thomas Drinkwater Camille Lagesse Cedric Edwards Harry Broadhurst John Emilius Fauquier Roy McConnell (aviator) Ian Willoughby Bazalgette William MacDonald (RAF officer) Adolph Malan John Freeborn John Nicholls (RAF officer) Henry Wallace McLeod Charles Sims (aviator) Harry Compton Albert Tonkin Eustace Grenfell Brian Carbury Robert Barbour (RAF officer) Richard Garwood Trevor Sidney Wade Herbert Gilles Watson William Elliot (RAF officer) Denis Spotswood Donald Blakeslee Roderick Carr Maurice Leblanc-Smith George Augustus Vaughn, Jr. David Hughes (aviator) Eric William Wright Charles Crombie Percy Boulton Alan Smith (RAF officer) Philip Tudhope A.E. Clouston Evan Mackie Tim Elkington Frank Reginald Carey William Ernest Shields Basil Robinson Edward Sismore Leslie Hamilton Carroll W. McColpin John Lapsley George Melville-Jackson Ernest Charles Hoy George Palliser William Henry Rhodes-Moorhouse Raymond Brown Hesselyn Peter Raw William Elliott (aviator) Andrew Edward McKeever Frederick Wilton Arthur Whealy Frank Billinge Sidney Osborne Bufton Olans Johnsen John G. Manuel Richard Saul Leonard Cheshire Roy Calvert Glen Cooper Edward Crew Norman MacGregor Nigel Maynard Clayton Bissell William Thomas Barnes Cecil Thompson (aviator) Anthony Jacques Mantle Geoffrey Wellum Dinghy Young John Harry McNeaney Nigel Cullen Walter Churchill John Boothman Grahame Donald Edward Crundall Clifford McEwen Carl Frederick Falkenberg Clifford Sanderson John Pattison (RNZAF officer) Ernest Morrow Alan Rice-Oxley Frederick Ralph Sharp David Lee "Tex" Hill Geoffrey Page Charles Findlay Frederick Hunt (aviator) Walter G. R. Hinchliffe Neil Wheeler Henry Wrigley David Lord Howard Peter Blatchford Valston Hancock Charles Learmonth Andrew Beauchamp-Proctor John Balmer Eric Walker (aviator) John Barker (RAF officer) Edward Gordon Jones Lindsay Gordon Leslie Douglas Jackson Adrian Cole (RAAF officer) George Chisholm MacKay Paul McGinness Leslie Warren William Spurrett Fielding-Johnson Douglas Warren Henry John Burden Ernest Mustard Peter Wykeham Hartley Pullan Billy Drake John Pugh (aviator) Duncan Grinnell-Milne Edward A. Simpson Ted Swales Harold Molyneux Euan Dickson Frederic Ives Lord Denis Smallwood Frederick McCall Brian Lane (RAF officer) Hughie Edwards Charles C. Banks George Mills (RAF officer) Ross Macpherson Smith Leslie William Burbidge Allan Brown (aviator) Hugh Saunders Harold Albert White William Grossart Joseph R. Holzapple William Otway Boger George Lingham John Lloyd Waddy Robert J. Dixon Ronnie Fokes William Chesarek Andrew MacGregor Derek Harland Ward Virgil Brennan George Lawson (RAF officer) Harry Cobby Jean de Selys Longchamps Bunny Currant Allan Wright Curtis LeMay William Gray (aviator) Colin Falkland Gray Clive Caldwell William Coles (RAF officer) John Russell (aviator) Roderick Aeneas Chisholm Edward F. Rector Stephen Strafford Harold Albert Kullberg Ernest Mason Robert M. Hanson Francis Smith (aviator) William Miller (aviator) Frank William Foster Antoni Głowacki Basil Embry Arjan Singh Bobby Gibbes William Benson Craig Roi Wilson Jimmy Davies (RAF officer) James Dewhirst Gerald Gordon Bell James Brindley Nicolson David Young (British Army officer) Percy Charles Pickard Robin Olds Branse Burbridge Anthony Heward Bill Crawford-Crompton Edward Fielden (RAF officer) Douglas Carbery Samuel Kinkead Hazel Wallace Benjamin Roxburgh-Smith Maurice Freehill Arthur Coningham (RAF officer) James Hamilton Traill R. A. Del'Haye William Sidebottom (RAF officer) Charles Cudemore Barrie Heath Alan Boxer John Baker (RAF officer) Alec Coryton James Alfred Keating Wallace Kyle Percival Appleby Francis Turner (aviator) Victor Groom Robert Foster (RAF officer) Augustus Walker Stanley Stanger Billy Bishop Augustus Paget (RAF officer) William Mann (RAF officer) Charles Lupton Charles Steele George Gardiner (RAF officer) Edgar Kain William Foster MacNeece Foster David Moore Crook Arthur Spurling Archie McKellar Adrian Goldsmith William Brill Eric Brookes George Peters (aviator) Gordon Steege Claud Stokes Frederick Higginson Arthur Claydon William Weir (aviator) William Lancelot Jordan Frederick Hards Bob Braham Donald Hardman Ernest Davies (aviator) David Coke Andrew Humphrey Robert Anthony Maurice Palmer Nicky Barr August Thayer Jaccaci Eric Lock W. G. G. Duncan Smith Sandy Johnstone Denis Barnett Roy Phillipps Hunter Harris, Jr. Field Eugene Kindley Jerry Pentland Norman Trescowthick Alasdair Steedman Frank Godfrey George Scratchley Brown Gordon Cleaver Harry George Smart Grant L. Spackman Clifford Bowman Neil Smuts Guy Gibson Tom F. Hazell Charles Elworthy, Baron Elworthy Brian Eaton Fraser Barron George Gauld Bob Doe Donald MacLaren Richard Kingsland Peter Turnbull (RAAF officer) Robert Kenneth Whitney Arthur William Murphy Arthur Deane Nesbitt Thomas Sharpe (aviator) Dominic Salvatore Gentile Carrick Paul Hippolyte De La Rue Sydney Carlin (RAF officer) Finlay McQuistan Thomas Prickett Arthur Jarvis Roy Orrock Ronald Graham (RAF officer) Edward Patrick Kenney Eric Douglas Cummings William Ernest Staton Oliver Philpot Elwyn King D'Urban Armstrong Robert Chandler (RAF officer)
is award of	William Stephenson
is same of	Distinguished Service Cross (United Kingdom)