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Hugh Trenchard, 1st Viscount Trenchard received numerous titles, decorations, and honours both during and after his military career.

Ranks

Trenchard held the following ranks:

• 31 March 1891, 2nd Lieutenant, Forfar and Kincardine Artillery (Militia)
• 9 September 1893, 2nd Lieutenant, Royal Scots Fusiliers
• 12 August 1896, Lieutenant, Royal Scots Fusiliers
• 28 February 1900, Captain, Royal Scots Fusiliers
• 22 August 1902, Brevet Major
• 1 June 1908, Temporary Lieutenant Colonel
• 4 November 1910, Brevet Major
• 7 August 1914, Temporary Lieutenant Colonel
• 18 January 1915, Brevet Lieutenant Colonel
• 3 June 1915, Brevet Colonel
• 25 August 1915, Temporary Brigadier General
• 24 March 1916, Temporary Major-General
• 1 January 1917, Major-General
• 3 January 1918, Major-General, Royal Air Force
• 1 August 1919, Air Vice-Marshal, Royal Air Force
• 11 August 1919, Air Marshal, Royal Air Force
• 1 April 1922, Air Chief Marshal, Royal Air Force
• 1 January 1927, Marshal of the Royal Air Force

Mentions in Despatches

• 25 August 1905 (by F D Lugard, High Commissioner of the Northern Nigeria Protectorate)
• 18 September 1906 (by Lieutenant-Colonel H C Moorhouse, Officer Commanding Southern Nigeria Regiment)
• 31 May 1915 (by Field Marshal Sir John French, Commander-in-Chief British Armies in the Field)
• 1 November 1915 (by Field Marshal Sir John French, Commander-in-Chief, The British Army in France)
• 1 January 1916 (by Field Marshal Sir John French, Commander-in-Chief, The British Army in France)
• 15 June 1916
• 4 January 1917
• 11 December 1917
• 20 May 1918
• 10 April 1919

Orders of chivalry and decorations

• 18 September 1906, Distinguished Service Order
• 1 January 1914, Companion in the Most Honourable Order of the Bath
• 1 January 1918, Knight Commander of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath
• 1 January 1924, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath
• 20 July 1935, Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order
• 1 January 1951, Order of Merit

Titles of nobility

• 30 December 1919, Baronet
• 27 January 1930, Baron Trenchard, of Wolfeton in the County of Dorset
• 4 February 1936, Viscount Trenchard, of Wolfeton in the County of Dorset

Medals

• Queen's South Africa Medal with Transvaal, Orange Free State and Cape Colony clasps
• King's South Africa Medal with South Africa 1901 and South Africa 1902 clasps
• Africa General Service Medal with North Nigeria 1904, Southern Nigeria 1904-05 and Southern Nigeria 1905-06 clasps
• 1914 Star with 5 August - 22 November 1914 clasp
• War Medal
• Victory Medal with MiD oakleaf
• King George V Silver Jubilee Medal
• King George VI Coronation Medal
• Queen Elizabeth II Coronation Medal
• Croix de Guerre (Belgium)
• Distinguished Service Medal (U.S. Army)

Styles

Honorary degrees

• 1926, Doctor of Civil Law, University of Oxford
• date unknown Doctor of Laws, University of Cambridge

Foreign awards

• 25 August 1915, Order of St. Anne, 3rd Class with Swords, Russia
• 1910s, Croix de Guerre (France)
• 9 November 1916, Légion d'honneur, Croix de Commandeur, France
• 24 September 1917, Order of Leopold, Commander, Belgium
• 11 March 1918, Croix de guerre, Belgium
• 8 November 1918, Order of the Crown of Italy, Commander, Kingdom of Italy
• 1910s, Order of Saint Stanislaus, 1st Class with Swords, Russia
• 15 July 1919, Distinguished Service Medal, United States
• 4 January 1921, Order of the Sacred Treasure, 1st Class, Japan
• date unknown, Order of the Two Rivers, Iraq

Honorary appointments

• 13 July 1919 Colonel of the Royal Scots Fusiliers (with the honorary rank of Major-General). Resigned appointment on 1 May 1946.

References

1. Probert, Henry (1991). High Commanders of the Royal Air Force. London: HMSO. pp. 100 to 101. ISBN 0-11-772635-4.
2. "No. 26153". The London Gazette. 17 April 1891. p. 2117.
3. "No. 26439". The London Gazette. 8 September 1893. p. 5164.
4. "No. 26777". The London Gazette. 15 September 1896. p. 5140.
5. "No. 27174". The London Gazette. 16 March 1900. p. 1793.
6. "No. 27490". The London Gazette. 31 October 1902. pp. 6897–6902.
7. "No. 28165". The London Gazette. 7 August 1908. p. 5812.
8. "No. 28436". The London Gazette. 11 November 1910. p. 8076.
9. "No. 28873". The London Gazette. 18 August 1914. p. 6496.
10. ^ "No. 29043". The London Gazette (Supplement). 15 January 1915. p. 591.
11. "No. 29202". The London Gazette (Supplement). 22 June 1915. pp. 6116–6118.
12. ^ "Marshal of the RAF The Viscount Trenchard of Wolfeton". Air of Authority – A History of RAF Organisation. 9 October 2007. Retrieved 31 December 2010.
13. "No. 29534". The London Gazette. 4 April 1916. p. 3559.
14. "No. 32708". The London Gazette. 23 May 1922. p. 3961.
15. ^ "No. 33235". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 1926. p. 9.
16. "No. 27830". The London Gazette. 25 August 1905. p. 5833.
17. "No. 27950". The London Gazette. 18 September 1906. p. 6312.
18. "No. 29200". The London Gazette (Supplement). 18 June 1915. p. 5981.
19. "No. 29347". The London Gazette (Supplement). 29 October 1915. p. 10759.
20. "No. 29422". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 1915. pp. 1, 10.
21. "No. 27950". The London Gazette. 18 September 1906. p. 6318.
22. "No. 30450". The London Gazette (Supplement). 28 December 1917. p. 1.
23. "No. 34184". The London Gazette. 26 July 1935. p. 4841.
24. "No. 39104". The London Gazette (Supplement). 29 December 1950. p. 4.
25. "No. 33574". The London Gazette. 28 January 1930. p. 569.
26. "No. 34252". The London Gazette. 4 February 1936. p. 729.
27. "No. 29275". The London Gazette (Supplement). 24 August 1915. p. 8505.
28. "No. 29943". The London Gazette (Supplement). 13 February 1917. p. 1591.
29. "No. 30302". The London Gazette (Supplement). 21 September 1917. p. 9861.
30. "No. 30999". The London Gazette (Supplement). 5 November 1918. p. 13200.
31. "No. 32180". The London Gazette. 4 January 1921. p. 62.
32. Buchan, John (c. 1925). "Appendix I". The History of the Royal Scots Fusiliers 1678–1920. London, Edinburgh and New York: Thomas Nelson And Sons, Ltd. Archived from the original (Microsoft Word) on 8 July 2011. Retrieved 3 December 2009.
33. "No. 31916". The London Gazette (Supplement). 25 May 1920. p. 5898.
34. "No. 37552". The London Gazette (Supplement). 30 April 1946. p. 2121.

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