Alan Colin Campbell-Orde

1898 - 1992  (93 years)

• Name	Alan Colin Campbell-Orde
  Birth	4 Oct 1898	CBE AFC
  Gender	Male
  Death	18 Apr 1992
  Person ID	I97321	First tree
  Last Modified	19 Jan 2022

  
  

  Mother	Winifred Harriet Stewart,   b. Abt 1872   d. 26 Dec 1967 (Age 95 years)
  Family ID	F45154	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family
  Family ID	F78938	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Alan Colin Campbell-Orde was educated at Sherborne School, Sherborne, Dorset, England. He fought in the First World War, seeing active service in Belgium,where he was wounded. He gained the rank of Flight Sub-Lieutenant in the service of the Royal Naval Air Service and the the rank of Flying Officer in the service of the Royal Air Force. He was decorated with the Air Force Cross (A.F.C.) in 1919. He was one of the original commercial pilots on London-Paris route with Aircraft Transport 7 Travel Ltd. He was Instructor and Advisor to the Chinese Government in 1921 at Peking, China. He became an Instructor and then Chief Test Pilot for W G Armstrong-Whitworth Aircraft Ltd between 1924 and 1936. During his time here he flew the maiden flights of several aircraft including the AW.15 Atalanta on 6th June 1932 and the A.W.38 Whitley Bomber on 17 March 1936 . He was Operational Manager for British Airways and Imperial Airways between 1936 and 1940 and was Operational Director of BOAC between 1940 and 1943. He was on special duties for BOAC with Transport Command, Royal Air Force between 1943 and 1944. and then became Assistant to the Chairman of BOAC between 1944 and 1946. Between 1946 and 1957 he was the Development Director for BOAC. He became an aviation consultant in 1958.