John Tremayne Babington

John Tremayne Babington

Air Marshal Sir John Tremayne Babington KCB, CBE, DSO, RAF (20 July 1891 – 20 March 1979) was a senior commander in the Royal Air Force. In 1944, he retired and the following year he renounced his surname for Tremayne, thus becoming Sir John Tremayne Tremayne.

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