An Entity of Type: animal, from Named Graph: http://dbpedia.org, within Data Space: dbpedia.org

Air Vice-Marshal William Hopton Anderson, CBE, DFC (30 December 1891 – 30 December 1975) was a senior commander in the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF). He flew with the Australian Flying Corps in World War I, earning the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Belgian Croix de guerre, and leading Nos. 3 and 7 Squadrons. Anderson commanded the Australian Air Corps during its brief existence in 1920–21, before joining the fledgling RAAF. The service's third most senior officer, he primarily held posts on the Australian Air Board in the inter-war years. He was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1934, and promoted to air commodore in 1938.

Property Value
dbo:abstract
  • ويليام أندرسون (بالإنجليزية: William Anderson)‏ هو عسكري أسترالي، ولد في 30 ديسمبر 1891 في كيو ‏ في أستراليا، وتوفي في 30 ديسمبر 1975 في East Melbourne ‏ في أستراليا. (ar)
  • Air Vice-Marshal William Hopton Anderson, CBE, DFC (30 December 1891 – 30 December 1975) was a senior commander in the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF). He flew with the Australian Flying Corps in World War I, earning the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Belgian Croix de guerre, and leading Nos. 3 and 7 Squadrons. Anderson commanded the Australian Air Corps during its brief existence in 1920–21, before joining the fledgling RAAF. The service's third most senior officer, he primarily held posts on the Australian Air Board in the inter-war years. He was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1934, and promoted to air commodore in 1938. When World War II broke out, Anderson was Air Member for Supply. In 1940 he acted as Chief of the Air Staff between the resignation of Air Vice-Marshal Stanley Goble in January and the arrival of Air Chief Marshal Sir Charles Burnett, RAF, the next month. He led the newly formed Central and Eastern Area Commands between December 1940 and July 1943, briefly returning to the Air Board as Air Member for Organisation and Equipment in 1941–42. Anderson was founding Commandant of the RAAF Staff School from July to November 1943, and held this post again from October 1944 until his retirement in April 1946. Known to his colleagues as "Andy" or "Mucker", he died on his birthday in 1975. (en)
  • William Hopton (Bill) Anderson (30 de Dezembro de 1891 – 30 de Dezembro de 1975) foi um oficial de alta-patente da Real Força Aérea Australiana. Foi piloto no Australian Flying Corps durante a Primeira Guerra Mundial, sendo condecorado com a Distinguished Flying Cross, liderando o Esquadrão N.º 3 da RAAF e o Esquadrão N.º 7 da RAAF. Foi promovido a Comodoro em 1938. Durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial, serviu como Chefe de Estado Maior, comandou a e , tendo alcançado o posto de Air Vice-Marshal. (pt)
dbo:allegiance
  • Australia
dbo:award
dbo:militaryBranch
dbo:militaryCommand
  • Australian Air Corps(1920–21)
  • Central Area Command(1940–41)
  • Chief of the Air Staff(1940)
  • Eastern Area Command(1942–43)
  • No. 1 FTS(1921, 1925–26)
  • No. 3 Squadron AFC(1918–19)
  • No. 7 Squadron AFC(1918)
  • RAAF Staff School (1943, 1944–46)
dbo:militaryUnit
dbo:restingPlace
dbo:serviceEndYear
  • 1946-01-01 (xsd:gYear)
dbo:serviceStartYear
  • 1910-01-01 (xsd:gYear)
dbo:thumbnail
dbo:wikiPageExternalLink
dbo:wikiPageID
  • 14547249 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageLength
  • 26285 (xsd:nonNegativeInteger)
dbo:wikiPageRevisionID
  • 1121729155 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageWikiLink
dbp:allegiance
  • Australia (en)
dbp:alt
  • Head-and-shoulders portrait of moustachioed man in light-coloured military uniform with pilot's wings on left pocket (en)
dbp:awards
dbp:battles
  • World War I (en)
  • World War II (en)
  • (en)
dbp:birthDate
  • 1891-12-30 (xsd:date)
dbp:birthPlace
  • Kew, Victoria (en)
dbp:branch
dbp:caption
  • Air Vice-Marshal Anderson, (en)
dbp:commands
dbp:deathDate
  • 1975-12-30 (xsd:date)
dbp:deathPlace
  • East Melbourne, Victoria (en)
dbp:name
  • William Anderson (en)
dbp:nickname
  • "Andy"; "Mucker" (en)
dbp:placeofburial
dbp:rank
dbp:serviceyears
  • 1910 (xsd:integer)
dbp:title
dbp:unit
dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate
dbp:wordnet_type
dbp:years
  • December 1943 – September 1944 (en)
  • May 1942 – July 1943 (en)
  • January–February 1940 (en)
  • March–November 1940 (en)
dcterms:subject
gold:hypernym
schema:sameAs
rdf:type
rdfs:comment
  • ويليام أندرسون (بالإنجليزية: William Anderson)‏ هو عسكري أسترالي، ولد في 30 ديسمبر 1891 في كيو ‏ في أستراليا، وتوفي في 30 ديسمبر 1975 في East Melbourne ‏ في أستراليا. (ar)
  • William Hopton (Bill) Anderson (30 de Dezembro de 1891 – 30 de Dezembro de 1975) foi um oficial de alta-patente da Real Força Aérea Australiana. Foi piloto no Australian Flying Corps durante a Primeira Guerra Mundial, sendo condecorado com a Distinguished Flying Cross, liderando o Esquadrão N.º 3 da RAAF e o Esquadrão N.º 7 da RAAF. Foi promovido a Comodoro em 1938. Durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial, serviu como Chefe de Estado Maior, comandou a e , tendo alcançado o posto de Air Vice-Marshal. (pt)
  • Air Vice-Marshal William Hopton Anderson, CBE, DFC (30 December 1891 – 30 December 1975) was a senior commander in the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF). He flew with the Australian Flying Corps in World War I, earning the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Belgian Croix de guerre, and leading Nos. 3 and 7 Squadrons. Anderson commanded the Australian Air Corps during its brief existence in 1920–21, before joining the fledgling RAAF. The service's third most senior officer, he primarily held posts on the Australian Air Board in the inter-war years. He was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1934, and promoted to air commodore in 1938. (en)
rdfs:label
  • ويليام أندرسون (عسكري أسترالي) (ar)
  • William Anderson (RAAF) (pt)
  • William Anderson (RAAF officer) (en)
owl:sameAs
prov:wasDerivedFrom
foaf:depiction
foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf
foaf:name
  • William Anderson (en)
foaf:nick
  • "Andy"; "Mucker" (en)
is dbo:commander of
is dbo:notableCommander of
is dbo:wikiPageDisambiguates of
is dbo:wikiPageRedirects of
is dbo:wikiPageWikiLink of
is dbp:before of
is dbp:commander of
is dbp:notableCommanders of
is foaf:primaryTopic of
Powered by OpenLink Virtuoso    This material is Open Knowledge     W3C Semantic Web Technology     This material is Open Knowledge    Valid XHTML + RDFa
This content was extracted from Wikipedia and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License