Title
Humphrey Verdon Roe's appointment as a Pilot Officer in the RAF Volunteer Reserve.
Reference
YA2010.85/7/3
Production date
1940 - 1940
Language
English
Level of description
ITEM
Repository name
Science and Industry Museum
Associated people and organisations
- Roe, Humphrey VerdonBiographyBiography
Humphrey Verdon-Roe was an English businessman and philanthropist who served as a lieutenant during both world wars. He was born in 1878 in Manchester. Along with his brother, Sir Alliott Verdon-Roe, he founded the A. V. Roe & Co Ltd company in 1910 (also known as Avro), which capitalised on A.V. Roe’s aeronautical inventions and experiments and went on to be of paramount importance to the training of air force officers. In 1918, Humphrey Verdon-Roe married Dr. Marie C. Stopes and together, they opened the first birth control clinic in Britain in London in 1921, the Mothers’ Clinic. Humphrey Verdon-Roe died in 1949.
- Royal Air ForceBiographyBiography
The Royal Air Force was created by the amalgamation of the Royal Flying Corp and the Royal Naval Air Service as an independent air service during the First World War.
Subject
Conditions governing access
Open access.
Conditions governing Reproduction
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