Group Captain John Edward Tennant DSO MC Distinguished Service OrderMilitary Cross

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7.8.1941

Aged 51
Royal Airforce Volunteer Reserve
Born 12th October 1890
Tennant was the eldest son of Francis John Tennant of Innes, Morayshire. He was educated at Royal Naval College, Osborne and Royal Naval College, Dartmouth. In 1918 he married Georgina Helen Kirkpatrick. They had one son, Iain Mark Tennant. In 1925 she obtained a divorce. In 1926 he married Victoria Maud Veronica Duff. They had two sons and two daughters
Tennant served as a Midshipman, 1908–10. In 1910 he became a 2nd Lieutenant in the Scots Guards. After the outbreak of war in September 1914 he was seconded to the Royal Flying Corps. He served in France, 1914–16, and as OC for the RFC and the RAF in Mesopotamia, 1916–18. He was mentioned in dispatches five times, he was awarded the Military Cross, Bt Major in Army, Distinguished Service Order and the Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur. He was shot down and captured by the Turks while in Mesopotamia, but rescued four days later by armoured cars.
In 1939 Tennant became a Wing-Commander in the RAFVR and then an Acting Group Captain. He was assigned to the Intelligence Staff, of the Air Ministry. He was Personal Air Secretary to the Chief of Air Staff, Sir Charles Portal from 1940–41. He was Commandant for Scotland, Air Training Corps, in 1941.[8] He died in a flying accident in Scotland

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