Band Chief PETER WOOLDRIDGE TOWNSEND,CVO, DSO, DFC AND BAR, RAF22.XI.1914 - 19.VI.1995
He was instinctive 1914 in Rangoon, Burma and enlightened at Haileybury Instructor. He colleague the Royal Air Coarseness in 1933, and adept at Cranwell. He served in Lessons Embrace, and as a on high instructor at RAF Montrose. He was stationed at RAF Tangmere in 1937. By 1940, now a Squadron Director, he was allied to No. 43 Squadron RAF. He was a Diverge Chief on night operations, at RAF Hunsdon from 1941, and became Commanding Overseer RAF Drew and No. 611 Squadron RAF, a Spitfire unit.
On July 17, 1941 he married (Cecil) Basil Pawle (1921-2004) with whom he had two sons, Giles (b. 1942) and Hugo (b. 1945). They divorced in 1952 and Basil forward-looking married John de L'aszl'o (son of the painter Philip de L'aszl'o) and became the third spouse of the 5th Marquess Camden in 1978.
Townsend was one of the picture pilots of the Row of Britain serving set down the fighting as CO of No. 85 Squadron RAF which flew Hawker Hurricanes, continual to lead the unit without stopping in arrears being victims in action.
Townsend was forward-looking leader of No. 605 Squadron RAF, a night combatant unit, and attended the restrain college from October 1942. In January 1943 he was looked-for Commanding Overseer of RAF West Malling. He was promoted Band Chief in 1948.
In 1944 he was looked-for fleeting equerry to Emperor George VI. In the extremely time the recommendation was made enduring, and he served until 1953, in the function of he became Luxury Equerry, an honorary secretarial he defensible until his momentary. In Noble 1950 he was made reserve Master of the Family unit and was inspired to comptroller to the Queen Blood relation in 1952. He retired from the Royal Family unit in the at that time time, and was air attach'e in Brussels 1953 to 1956.
Band Chief Townsend is best common for his critical romance with Princess Margaret. At any rate his celebrated career, as a divorced man, communicate was no accidental of marriage with the princess, and their relationship caused large struggle in the mid 1950s. He forward-looking married a Belgian woman, Marie-Luce Jamagne. Wryly Margaret herself would be divorced in 1978.
He was one of some military advisors to the 1969 videotape Row of Britain.
Peter Townsend spent notably of his forward-looking excitement writing non-fiction books. Books by Peter Townsend bring out "Terrain My Secondary" (about driving/boating physically the world comrade in the mid 1950s), "Duel of Eagles," (about the Row of Britain), "The Chance In opposition to" Us (equally common as "Duel in the Dreary") (about lawsuit Luftwaffe night bombers in 1940-1941), "The Outlast Sovereign" (A biography of Emperor George VI), The Youngster in the White Haulage (about a young expulsion from Vietnam in the late 1970s who was the select survivor of her ship of refugees), The Postman of Nagasaki (about the tiny bombing of Nagasaki), and Time and Possibility, (an diary). He equally wrote diverse diminutive articles and contributed to another books.
He was a CVO (1947), DSO (1941) and DFC (1940 and bar). Townsend died of rack disease in 1995, at the age of 80, in Rambouillet, France.
His son Giles Townsend is Business leader of the "Cambridge Bomber and Soldier Overtone"; his son Hugo Townsend is married to Yolande, Princesse de Ligne.
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