Air Marshal Sir Basil Embry

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Air Marshal Sir Basil Embry was a distinguished Royal Air Force commander and World War II fighter leader renowned for his daring operational flying and later high-level leadership roles.

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Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Royal Air Force officer
World War II veteran
air marshal
fighter pilot
human
military commander
allegiance United Kingdom
authorOf Mission Completed
awardReceived Commandeur de la Légion d'honneur
surface form: Commander of the Legion of Honour

Legion of Merit
surface form: Commander of the Legion of Merit

Croix de Guerre
surface form: Croix de Guerre 1939–1945

Air Force Cross
surface form: Distinguished Flying Cross

Distinguished Service Order
Distinguished Service Order
surface form: Distinguished Service Order and Two Bars

Order of the Bath
surface form: Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath

Order of Polonia Restituta
birthDate 1902-02-28
birthPlace Gloucestershire
conflict World War I
surface form: First World War

World War II
surface form: Second World War
countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom
deathDate 1977-12-07
education RAF Cranwell
surface form: Royal Air Force College Cranwell
familyName Embry
genre military autobiography
givenName Basil
hasMilitaryRole fighter leader
operational commander
honorificPrefix Sir
languageSpoken English
militaryBranch Royal Air Force
militaryRank Air Marshal
notableEvent Escape from German captivity in 1940
notableFor daring low-level attack operations in World War II
high-level leadership in RAF Fighter Command after World War II
notableWork Mission Completed
Operational leadership of RAF 2 Group during World War II
occupation fighter pilot
military officer
partOf Royal Air Force Bomber Command
Royal Air Force Fighter Command
placeOfDeath Dorset
positionHeld No. 10 Group RAF
surface form: Air Officer Commanding No. 10 Group

No. 2 Group RAF
surface form: Air Officer Commanding No. 2 Group

No. 2 Group RAF
surface form: Air Officer Commanding No. 2 Group RAF

Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief Fighter Command
Royal Air Force Fighter Command
surface form: Commander-in-Chief Fighter Command
serviceNumber Royal Air Force officer number (unknown exact value)

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Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Air Marshal Sir Basil Embry
Description of subject: Air Marshal Sir Basil Embry was a distinguished Royal Air Force commander and World War II fighter leader renowned for his daring operational flying and later high-level leadership roles.

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

No. 12 Group RAF commander Air Marshal Sir Basil Embry
this entity surface form: Air Vice-Marshal Basil Embry
Mission Completed author Air Marshal Sir Basil Embry
this entity surface form: Air Chief Marshal Sir Basil Embry