About Anthony Heward
Lived 1918 – 1995 (aged 77). Anthony Heward was a British military personnel.
Air Chief Marshal Sir Anthony Wilkinson Heward, (1 July 1918 – 27 October 1995) was a senior Royal Air Force (RAF) commander.
RAF career Heward joined the Royal Air Force in 1936. He served in the Second World War as Officer Commanding No. 50 Squadron and then as Officer Commanding No. 97 Squadron before being made Personal Staff Officer to the Air Commander-in-Chief, RAF Mediterranean and Middle East in July 1945. and Air Member for Supply and Organisation in 1973.
In retirement he became a County councillor for Wiltshire.
Family In 1944, he married Clare Myfanwy Wainwright, the daughter of Major-General C B Wainwright CB. They had two children.
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Who was Anthony Heward?
Royal Air Force air marshal (1918-1995)
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Anthony Heward was born on 1 July 1918.
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Anthony Heward died on 27 October 1995.
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Anthony Heward was a military personnel.
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Anthony Heward was British.
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