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Allegiance
  
Canada

Name
  
Robert Falls

Battles/wars
  

Rank
  
Admiral

Years of service
  
1942-1980

Battles and wars
  
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Born
  
April 29, 1924Welland, Ontario (
1924-04-29
)

Service/branch
  
Royal Canadian Air Force Canadian Forces Maritime Command

Other work
  
President of the Canadian Centre for Arms Control and Disarmament (now the Canadian Council for International Peace and Security)

Died
  
November 6, 2009, Ottawa, Canada

Admiral Robert Hilborn Falls, (April 24, 1924 – November 6, 2009) was Chief of Defence Staff of the Canadian Forces from 1977 to 1980.

Military career

He first joined the Royal Canadian Air Force in 1942 as a pilot and later transferred to the Royal Canadian Navy after World War II. He served as commander of the Canadian Flotilla Atlantic, as Vice Chief of the Defence Staff from 1974 to 1977, as Chief of Defence Staff of the Canadian Forces from 1977 to 1980 and as chairman of the NATO Military Committee from 1980 to 1983.

He later became president of the Canadian Centre for Arms Control and Disarmament (now the Canadian Council for International Peace and Security).

References

Robert Hilborn Falls Wikipedia


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