Charles Henry Elliott-Smith

{{Short description|Officer in the Royal Air Force}}

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| birth_date = 6 October 1889

| death_date = 14 January 1994 (aged 104)

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| allegiance ={{UK}}

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| rank =Air Commodore

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| commands = No.193 Training Squadron
No.55 Squadron
No.56 Squadron
No.504 Squadron
No.9 Flying Train School
No.22 Air School (South Africa)
No.21 Group SAAF

| battles =World War I
World War II

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Air Commodore Charles Henry Elliott-Smith AFC (1889–1994) was a senior officer in the Royal Air Force who served in World War I and World War II.{{cite web|url=https://livesofthefirstworldwar.iwm.org.uk/community/5183/?page=49 |title=Community: Bedford Modern School - List of Old Bedford Modernians serving in HM Forces 1914 - 1918. | Lives of the First World War |publisher=Livesofthefirstworldwar.iwm.org.uk |date= |accessdate=2020-04-03}}{{cite web |url=https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/36276/supplement/5340/data.pdf |title=SUPPLEMENT TO THE LONDON GAZETTE |date=7 December 1943 |website=www.thegazette.co.uk |access-date=2020-04-04}}{{cite web |url=https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/36723/supplement/4488/data.pdf |title=SUPPLEMENT TO THE LONDON GAZETTE |date=29 September 1944 |website=www.thegazette.co.uk |access-date=2020-04-04}}{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yhIcFrjL4pUC&q=charles+henry+elliott+smith+air+force |title=The Air Force List - Great Britain. Air Ministry - Google Books |date=2017-11-07 |accessdate=2020-04-03|last1=Air Ministry |first1=Great Britain }} He was awarded the Air Force Cross in 1919, and was made a Commander of the Order of George I, by the King of Greece, in 1944.{{cite web |url=https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/31592/supplement/12527/data.pdf |title=SUPPLEMENT TO THE LONDON GAZETTE |date=10 October 1919 |website=www.thegazette.co.uk |access-date=2020-04-04}}{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QTo6AQAAMAAJ&q=charles+henry+elliott+smith+afc |title=Flight: The Aircraft Engineer & Airships - Google Books |date=2013-06-21 |accessdate=2020-04-03}}{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rYI9AQAAMAAJ&q=charles+henry+elliott+smith+afc |title=The Aeroplane and Astronautics - Google Books |date=2013-10-10 |accessdate=2020-04-03}}