Old Photograph Hugh Dowding Scotland

Old photograph of Hugh Dowding who was born on 24 April 1882 in Moffat in Dumfries and Galloway, in Scotland. Air Chief Marshal Hugh Caswall Tremenheere Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding was a British officer in the Royal Air Force. He served as a fighter pilot and then as commanding officer of No. 16 Squadron during the First World War. During the inter war years he became Air Officer Commanding Fighting Area, Air Defence of Great Britain and then joined the Air Council as Air Member for Supply and Research. He was Air Officer Commanding RAF Fighter Command during the Battle of Britain, and is generally credited with playing a crucial role in Britain's defence, and hence, the defeat of Adolf Hitler's plan to invade Britain. Dowding died at his home in Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England, on 15 February 1970. Following his cremation, his ashes were laid to rest below the Battle of Britain Memorial Window in the Royal Air Force chapel at Westminster Abbey in London.

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