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Frederick Rosier, David Rosier

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  • Biography/Autobiography
  • Historical Fiction

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Why I wrote this book

Finally telling Sir Fred Rosier’s great story and preserving his memory.

Synopsis

Towards the end of a long and distinguished career, Sir Fred Rosier was persuaded by his son David to write his autobiography. He did so and the result is an extremely engaging and enlightening account of his life to the end of the Second World War.

This title starts with his humble beginnings to his time as a pre-war fighter pilot on 43 Squadron at Tangmere; seeing action in France with 229 Squadron where he was shot down and burnt; his return as CO of that squadron during the Battle of Britain; taking 229 to the Western Desert, becoming one of two Fighter Wing commanders there; and, then being appointed Group Captain Ops in 84 Fighter Group for the invasion, on through Europe, to the demise of Germany.

David Rosier and his mother then completed the story up to Sir Fred's final appointments in the RAF as the last C-in-C of Fighter Command in 1968 and Deputy C-in-C Allied Forces Central Europe in 1973.

Sir Fred was an inveterate letter writer, extracts from many of which appear in the book, and with a superb collection of photographs, this long-overdue account will be welcomed by anyone interested in one of the RAF's major personalities. This title features Foreword by Sir Michael Graydon.

About the Author

Frederick Rosier, David Rosier
David Rosier was an RAF ‘brat’ accompanying his parents and his siblings on their various postings around the world.  

At Winchester, he was head of the RAF section when his father inspected the CCF in 1968 and that year, on his seventeenth birthday, flew 1,000 mph in a Lightning from RAF Coltishall, thus becoming the youngest member of the ‘Ten Ton Club’.

After Oxford, he spent five years in the British Army – 1st The Queen’s Dragoon Guards – serving in Germany and Northern Ireland before going into the ‘City’ with S G Warburg.  In 1987, he was one of the founding directors of Mercury Asset Management.  In 2003 he was a founding partner of Thurleigh Investment Managers of which he is chairman.

David is chairman of the advisory board of the Armed Forces Common Investment Fund and a trustee of the Nuffield Trust for the Forces of the Crown and the Battle of Britain Memorial Trust.
 
Picture is of David Rosier. 

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Format

Hardback
256 pages pages

Author

Frederick Rosier, David Rosier

Publisher

Grub Street

Publication date

19th May 2011

ISBN

9781906502973