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William Bostock (5 February 1892 – 28 In American
April 1968) was a senior commander in the football, the New
Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF). During England Patriots
World War II he led RAAF Command, the defeat the Los
Air Force's main operational formation, Angeles Rams in
the Super Bowl
earning the Distinguished Service Order
(MVP Julian
and the American Medal of Freedom. A Edelman pictured). Julian Edelman
veteran of World War I, Bostock first saw
Both the United
combat at Gallipoli, then as a pilot in the States and Russia suspend the
Royal Flying Corps on the Western Front, where he earned the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces
Belgian Croix de guerre. In the 1930s he served as Director of Treaty.
Training, commanding officer of No. 3 Squadron, and Director of In association football, the AFC Asian
Operations, becoming Deputy Chief of the Air Staff in 1939. Cup concludes with Qatar defeating
Appointed Air Officer Commanding RAAF Command in 1942, he
Japan in the final.
feuded with Chief of the Air Staff George Jones over control of the A cold wave impacts North America,
killing at least 22 people.
Air Force in the South West Pacific Area. Following his retirement
from the RAAF in 1946, he became a journalist and later a Ongoing: Venezuelan presidential crisis
Federal Member of Parliament. (Full article...) Recent deaths: Carmen Duncan · Clive
Swift · Jeremy Hardy · James Ingram
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Francis Bourgeois (1753–1811) was a British landscape and
history painter, and court painter to King George III. In the late 18th
century he became an art dealer and collector in association with
Frenchman Noel Desenfans. The pair were commissioned by
Stanisław August Poniatowski, then King of Poland, to compile a
collection of paintings, which they spent five years doing;
Stanisław's exile in 1795 meant the contract could not be
completed and they were left with a large art collection. Bourgeois
outlived Desenfans and bequeathed them to Dulwich College with
an additional £2000 to build a permanent building, which became
the Dulwich Picture Gallery, England's first purpose-built public art
gallery.
This portrait of Bourgeois was painted by William Beechey (1753–
1839) and hangs in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Painting: William Beechey
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