British Air Commodore Viscount Walter Leslie Runciman of Doxford: Uniform Set

Original Item: One Only. The History: Walter Leslie Runciman Bt. OBE, AFC, AE.  Born: 1900 Died: 1989, son of Viscount Runciman of Doxford, educated at Eton and became a King's Scholar at Trinity College Cambridge. First Commander of RAF 607 (County of Durham) Squadron raised March 17th. 1930. This Fighter Squadron became one of Britain most famous Squadrons in The Battle of Britain and throughout WW2. In 1939 Runciman was promoted to Air Commodore and after the outbreak of WW2 became Director General of BOAC under the Churchill Administration. In 1943 he was posted to TEHRAN as Air Attach? and was instrumental in creating "The Declaration of the Three Powers" agreed upon by Roosevelt, Stalin and Churchill in December 1943 that mapped out the remainder of the war.  Runciman retired from Military Service in 1946 and succeeded to his father's seat in the House of Lords in 1949. He spent the next 40 years spearheading multiple Government Committees, Councils and Charitable Organizations.