Allegiance United Kingdom Name Cresswell Clementi Children David Clementi Battles/wars Second World War Service/branch Royal Air Force | Rank Air Vice Marshal Battles and wars World War II Years of service 1938–1974 Died August 26, 1981 | |
Born 30 December 1918
British Guiana ( 1918-12-30 ) Commands held No. 19 Group (1968–69)
RAF Bassingbourn (1958–61)
No. 214 Squadron (1946–48) Relations Sir Cecil Clementi (father)
Sir David Clementi (son) Awards Order of the Bath, Order of the British Empire, Mentioned in dispatches Similar People David Clementi, John Vickers, John Gieve, Alan Budd, Marian Bell | ||
Air Vice Marshal Cresswell Montagu Clementi CB, CBE (30 December 1918 – 26 August 1981) was a senior Royal Air Force (RAF) commander.
Clementi was the son of Cecil Clementi and Marie Penelope Rose Eyres. He was born on 20 December 1918 in British Guiana during his father's posting there as Colonial Secretary (1913–1922). He joined the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve in 1939, and was granted a permanent commission in the RAF in 1946. He attended the British nuclear tests in 1958 at Christmas Island. He retired in 1974. He was Master of the Mercers' Company in 1977.
Clementi married Susan Pelham in 1940 and had three children:
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