Group captain leonard cheshire biography of rory

          His career in RAF Bomber Command made him famous for acts of courage and becoming the youngest RAF Group Captain and one of the highest decorated members of..

          Born in Bridge Street, Chester; Group Captain Leonard Cheshire (–), Second World War RAF bomber pilot and founder of the Leonard Cheshire.

          OBITUARY: LEONARD CHESHIRE' [EXTRACTS]

          By Alenka Lawrence

          The Tablet – 8 August 1992

          Group Captain Lord Cheshire VC, OM, DSO, DFC, bomber pilot, observer at the dropping of the atom bomb on Nagasaki and founder of 270 Cheshire homes for the disabled worldwide, died on 31 July, aged 74.

          It was an extraordinary life, the stuff of filmscripts or, perhaps for Christians, miracles.

          Leonard Cheshire, the hedonistic student, became the RAF's most decorated wartime pilot. He witnessed one of the greatest cataclysms of modern times. He found God, deeply and permanently, on hearing a chance remark by a tipsy woman in a London nightclub and his post-war purpose in life after singlehandedly nursing a destitute cancer victim whom no one else would take on.

          In December Rory McEwen was appointed.

        1. We were both deeply inspired by our founders, Sue Ryder and Leonard Cheshire, and their selfless devotion to improving the lives of many.
        2. His career in RAF Bomber Command made him famous for acts of courage and becoming the youngest RAF Group Captain and one of the highest decorated members of.
        3. As the Royal Air Force's youngest Group Captain in , he took a drop in rank and went on to command No. Squadron and pioneer low.
        4. Leonard Cheshire – Charity founder and VC holder; Henry Allingham – World War I veteran and last surviving founder member of the RAF; David Henderson.

          5. He proceeded to change the lives of thousands of sick, disabled and despairing people all over the world. During the war he impulsively married a twice-divorced film actress 18 years his senior. It failed but, later, he found h