AIR COUNCIL IN SESSION (1) [Allocated Title]

Unedited film of the (British) Air Council in session at the Air Ministry in July 1940.

Members of the Air Council and additional staff seated round a table are, from left to right clockwise: Air Vice Marshal A G R Garrod (Air Member for Personnel), Sir Harold G Howitt (Additional Member), Air Marshal Sir C L Courtney (Air Member for Supply and Organisation), Air Marshal E L Gossage (Air Member for Personnel), Captain H H Balfour (Under-Secretary of State for Air), Sir Archibald Sinclair (Secretary of State for Air, President of the Air Council), Air Chief Marshal Sir Cyril Newall (Chief of the Air Staff), Sir Arthur Street (Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Air), Air Chief Marshal Sir Wilfred R Freeman (Air Member for Development and Production), Sir Charles Craven (Civil Member for Development and Production), Mr R H Melville (Private Secretary to Secretary of State for Air), Flight Lieutenant W W Wakefield (Parliamentary Private Secretary to Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Air). Before session opens Squadron Leader W T S Williams speaks briefly to Sinclair. After film of session brief view of RAF men with a machine gun.

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