About Eric Speed
Lived 1895 – 1971 (aged 75–76). Eric Speed was a military personnel.
Sir Eric Bourne Bentinck Speed, KCB, KBE, MC (26 January 1895 – 28 June 1971) was a British civil servant. He was Permanent Under-Secretary of State for War, jointly with Sir Frederick Bovenschen from 1942 to 1945, and then until 1948.
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British civil servant
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Eric Speed was born in 1895.
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Eric Speed died in 1971.
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Eric Speed was a military personnel.
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