Percy Bernard, 5th Earl of Bandon
| The Earl of Bandon | |
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Air Vice Marshal the Earl of Bandon, Air Officer Commanding No. 224 Group at his Headquarters at Akyab, Burma.
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| Nickname(s) | Paddy |
| Born |
30 August 1904 Gillingham, England |
| Died | 8 February 1979 (aged 74) Bon Secours Hospital, Cork, Ireland |
| Allegiance | United Kingdom |
| Service/branch | Royal Air Force |
| Years of service | 1922–64 |
| Rank | Air Chief Marshal |
| Commands held |
Allied Air Forces Central Europe (1961–63) Far East Air Force (1957–60) Second Tactical Air Force (1956–57) No. 11 Group (1951–53) No. 2 Group (1950–51) Royal Observer Corps (1945–49) No. 224 Group (1944–45) RAF Horsham St Faith (1942) RAF West Raynham (1941) RAF Watton (1940–41) No. 82 Squadron (1940) |
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Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire Companion of the Order of the Bath Commander of the Royal Victorian Order Distinguished Service Order Mentioned in Despatches (3) Distinguished Flying Cross (United States) Bronze Star Medal (United States) |
 Portrait in oils of Air Marshal the Earl of Bandon in the 1950s
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Air Chief Marshal Percy Ronald Gardner Bernard, 5th Earl of Bandon, GBE, CB, CVO, DSO (30 August 1904 – 8 February 1979) was an Anglo-Irish who served as a senior commander in the Royal Air Force in the mid-20th century. He was a squadron, station and group commander during the Second World War, and the fifth Commandant of the Royal Observer Corps after the war. He was awarded the American Distinguished Flying Cross and Bronze Star Medal in 1946.
Born in Gillingham, Kent, Bernard was the elder of twin boys by twenty minutes and the son of Lieutenant Colonel Ronald Percy Hamilton Bernard and Lettice Mina Paget, daughter of Captain Gerald Cecil Stewart Paget, son of Lord Alfred Paget, younger son of Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey. On his father's side he was a great-grandson of the Right Reverend Charles Bernard, Bishop of Tuam, younger son of James Bernard, 2nd Earl of Bandon. His family resided in a house on the Theobald's Park estate in Hertfordshire where the eccentric horse breeder and owner Lady Meux had loaned his parents a house.
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