Geoffrey Harry Briggs
RAF Wing Commander
About Geoffrey Harry Briggs
Lived 1918 – 2005 (aged 87).
Wing Commander Geoffrey Harry Briggs (1918-2005) DFC, also known as Buster Briggs, was a Royal Air Force officer and High Sheriff of West Sussex.
Education Briggs was educated at Eton College.
Career In 1938 Briggs was commissioned into the Coldstream Guards, after training at Royal Military College, Sandhurst. The following year he was with the 1st Battalion as part of the British Expeditionary Force and was evacuated at Dunkirk.
He later commanded No. 190 Squadron RAF before being invalided out of the service in July 1946 due to polio.
Interests Briggs was a member of sailing clubs for 60 years.
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Who was Geoffrey Harry Briggs?
RAF Wing Commander (1918-2005)
When was Geoffrey Harry Briggs born?
Geoffrey Harry Briggs was born on 22 March 1918 in Oxford.
When did Geoffrey Harry Briggs die?
Geoffrey Harry Briggs died on 13 April 2005.
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