Wallace Kyle

Royal Air Force officer (1910–1988)

PersonDied aged 78humanQ7962836

Born: January 22, 1910
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Died: January 31, 1988
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Birthplace: Kalgoorlie
Place of death: Lymington
Citizenship: Australia
Occupation: politician
Positions held: Governor of Western Australia(1975–1980)
Education: Royal Air Force College Cranwell
, Guildford Grammar School

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Air Chief Marshal Sir Wallace Hart Kyle, was an Australian who served in the Royal Air Force (RAF) as a senior commander and later as the 24th Governor of Western Australia. Born in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, Kyle was commissioned into the RAF in 1929, and, having seen service in the Second World War and the Malayan Emergency, held a number of senior positions, including Vice-Chief of the Air Staff and commander-in-chief of the RAF's Bomber Command and Strike Command. He was made Governor of Western Australia in 1975, a position in which he served until 1980, later returning to England, where he died in 1988.

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