Harris, Arthur

has biography | a une biographie: Colonial air-force officer and Marshal of the Royal Air Force (RAF) during the Second World War. Harris was the son of George Steel Travers Harris, an Indian Civil Service officer, and spent his early adult years in Rhodesia before fighting in Africa and Europe during the First World War. During the interwar years Harris served with the RAF in India, Iraq, Iran, Palestine and Jordan, where he helped to suppress anti-colonial revolts as well as develop new area bombing techniques. After leading RAF Bomber Command in the Allies' bombing campaign against Nazi Germany in the Second World War, Harris moved to South Africa to briefly manage the South African Marine Corporation, before finally returning to the UK in 1953.
was born | est né: 13 April 1892
died in | est mort par: 5 April 1984
has nationality | a la nationalité: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
has type | est de type: depicted

is referred to by | est référencé par: Wikipedia; National Portrait Gallery; Alan Lester, 'Nadhim Zahawi and the Iraqi Civil Service: a benefit of empire we should teach our kids?', Snapshots of Empire (2022); Internet Archive - Sven Lvindqvist, A History of Bombing (New York: The New Press, 2001); Internet Archive - David E. Omissi, Air Power and Colonial Control: The Royal Air Force, 1919-1939 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1990)

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