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John Tyssen


John Tyssen
(1889-06-20)20 June 1889
4 January 1953(1953-01-04) (aged 63)
United Kingdom
British Army (1907–18)Royal Air Force (1918–42)
1907–42
Air vice-marshal
No. 16 Group (1940–42)British Forces in Iraq (1937–
39)No. 12 Group (1937)RAF Gosport (1930–35)RAF Tangmere (1926–28)No. 5 Wing (1923–24)No. 20 Squadron (1920–23)No. 58 Squadron (1918)No. 26 Squadron (1917–18)
First World WarSecond World War
Companion of the Order of the BathMilitary CrossMentioned in dispatches

Air Vice-Marshal John Hugh Samuel Tyssen, CB, MC (20 June 1889 – 4 January 1953) was a British Royal Flying Corps pilot during the First World War and a senior Royal Air Force commander during the first half of the Second World War. He was Air Officer Commanding British Forces in Iraq (20 November 1937 – November 1939)

  • Air of Authority – A History of RAF Organisation – Air Vice-Marshal J H S Tyssen
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