FDC Battle Of Brittain Sr Foxley-Norris and Group Captain D.E. Gillam

Air Chief Marshal Sir Christopher Neil Foxley-Norris, GCB, DSO, OBE, FRSA (16 March 1917 – 28 September 2003) was a senior commander in the Royal Air Force (RAF). A squadron commander during the Second World War, he later served as Commander-in-Chief RAF Germany in the late 1960s.

Denys Edgar Gillam DSO & Two Bars, DFC & Bar, AFC, DL (18 November 1915–September 1991) was a British flying ace of the Royal Air Force (RAF) during the Second World War. He is credited with the destruction of at least eight aircraft.

From Tynemouth, Gillam joined the RAF in 1935. At the time of the outbreak of the Second World War, he was serving with No. 616 Squadron and flew in its operations over Dunkirk and in the subsequent Battle of Britain. Destroying a number of German aircraft during this time, he was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross (DFC). For much of 1941, he held squadron commands, for which he was awarded a Bar to his DFC and the Distinguished Service Order (DSO). In August 1942, he was commander of the Hawker Typhoon wing at Duxford that flew in support of the Dieppe Raid. On either staff duties or training courses for much of the following 12 months, he then held a series of command posts, including a period leading No. 146 Wing. He was twice awarded a Bar to his DSO for his leadership of the wing in its operations. After the war, he was a businessman and farmer but also served in the Royal Auxiliary Air Force for a number of years. A Deputy Lieutenant for the West Riding of Yorkshire, he died in September 1991, aged 75.