What is Hugh Trenchard, 1st Viscount Trenchard?
{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2019}} {{Use British English|date=April 2012}} {{Infobox military person |birth_date={{Birth date|1873|02|03|df=yes}} |death_date={{Death date and age|1956|02|10|1873|02|03|df=yes}} |birth_place= [[Taunton]], England |death_place= London, England |placeofburial= [[RAF Chapel]], [[Westminster Abbey]] |image=Sir Hugh Trenchard (cropped).jpg |signature=Trenchard signature.svg |caption= Trenchard in RAF full dress |nickname=The Camel (1890s)<br/>Boom (c. 1912 onwards) |allegiance={{flag|United Kingdom}} |rank= [[Marshal of the Royal Air Force]] |branch= [[British Army]] (1893&ndash;1918)<br>[[Royal Flying Corps]] (1918&ndash;1930) |commands=23rd Mounted Infantry Regiment (acting)<br/>[[Royal Flying Corps]] in the Field<br/> Chief of the Air Staff<br/>[[Independent Air Force]] |battles= [[Second Boer War]]<br>[[World War I]]<br>[[World War II]] (semi-officially) |awards=[[Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath]]<br/>[[Order of Merit|Member of the Order of Merit]]<br/>[[Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order]]<br/>[[Companion of the Distinguished Service Order]] ([[List of titles and honours of Hugh Trenchard, 1st Viscount Trenchard|Full list]]) |laterwork= Commissioner of the [[Metropolitan Police]]<br>Chairman of the [[United Africa Company]] }} [[File:Trenchard at GHQ.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Portrait of Trenchard by [[William Orpen]], 13 May 1917]] [[Marshal of the Royal Air Force]] '''Hugh Montague Trenchard, 1st Viscount Trenchard''' [[Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath|GCB]] [[Order of Merit|OM]] [[Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order|GCVO]] [[Distinguished Service Order|DSO]] (3 February 1873 – 10 February 1956) was a [[British Army]] officer who commanded the [[Royal Flying Corps]] (RFC) from August 1915 to January 1918. The RFC was followed by the [[Royal Air Force]] (RAF), which was founded in March 1918. Trenchard, who learnt to fly in 1912, eventually became Chief of the Air Staff in 1919. In that position he reorganised the Air Ministry, and laid t