Charles Portal, 1st Viscount Portal of Hungerford

Marshal of the Royal Air Force Charles Frederick Algernon Portal, 1st Viscount Portal of Hungerford KG GCB OM DSO & Bar MC (21 May 1893 – 22 April 1971) was a senior Royal Air Force officer and an advocate of strategic bombing. He was the British Chief of the Air Staff during most of the Second World War. Charles Portal was born 21 May 1893 at Eddington House, in Hungerford, England, the son of Edward Robert Portal and his wife Ellinor Kate (née ... more

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  • May 21, 1893

Date of death:

  • Apr 22, 1971 (age 77 years)

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  • Sir Charles Portal
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