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|honorific-prefix=<small>[[Marshal of the Royal Air Force]] [[The Right Honourable]]</small><br/>
|name=The Lord Newall<br/>
|honorific-suffix=<small>[[Order of the Bath|GCB]] [[Order of Merit|OM]] [[Order of St Michael and St George|GCMG]] [[Order of the British Empire|CBE]] [[Albert Medal (lifesaving)|AM]]</small>
|birth_date= 15 February 1886
|death_date= {{Death date and age|1963|11|30|1886|2|15|df=y}}
(contracted; show full)d the [[Royal Military College, Sandhurst]].<ref>Orange (2008)</ref> His fellow students there included [[John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort|Lord Gort]], who would later serve as [[Chief of the Imperial General Staff]] opposite Newall as [[Chief of the Air Staff (United Kingdom)|Chief of the Air Staff]]. After leaving Sandhurst, he was commissioned into the [[Royal Warwickshire Regiment]] on 16 August 1905.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=27827|supp=|startpage=5620|date=15 August 1905|accessdate=
2010-12-1919 December 2010}}</ref> He was promoted to Lieutenant on 18 November 1908,<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=28209|supp=|startpage=9945|date=29 December 1908|accessdate=2010-12-1919 December 2010}}</ref> and transferred to the [[2nd King Edward VII's Own Gurkha Rifles]] in September 1909.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=28338|supp=|startpage=1047|date=11 February 1910|accessdate=2010-12-1919 December 2010}}</ref> He then served on the [[North-West Frontier (military history)|North-West Frontier]], where he first encountered his future colleague [[Hugh Dowding]]; at an exercise in 1909, Dowding's artillery section ambushed Newall's Gurkhas whilst they were still breakfasting.<ref>Wright, p. 25</ref>

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|source  = – Citation for the [[Albert Medal (lifesaving)|Albert Medal]], published in the ''London Gazette''.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=29588|supp=|startpage=4970|date=19 May 1916|accessdate=
2010-12-1919 December 2010}}</ref>}}

On the outbreak of war, Newall was in England. On 12 September, he was given the temporary rank of Captain, and attached to the [[Royal Flying Corps]] as a flight commander, to serve with [[No. 1 Squadron RFC|No. 1 Squadron]].<ref>Orange (2008)</ref><ref>{{London Gazette|issue=28910|supp=|startpage=7479|date=22 September 1914|accessdate=2010-12-1919 December 2010}}</ref> On 24 March 1915 he was promoted to Major and appointed to command [[No. 12 Squadron RFC|No. 12 Squadron]], which served in France from September onwards.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=29120|supp=yes|startpage=3413|date=6 April 1915|accessdate=2010-12-1919 December 2010}}</ref>

On taking command of the squadron, he chose to stop flying personally in order to concentrate on administration, a decision which was regarded dismissively by his men. Relations were strained until January 1916, when he demonstrated a remarkable degree of physical courage by walking into a burning bomb store to try to control the fire. He was awarded the [[Albert Medal (lifesaving)|Albert Medal]] for this act, on the personal recommendation of General [[Hugh Trenchard]], and the following mo(contracted; show full)ector of personnel, and the Deputy Commandant of the [[No. 1 School of Technical Training|apprentices' technical training school]]. He married May Weddell in 1922; she died in September 1924, and he remarried the following year to Olive Foster, an American woman. He had three children with Foster, a son and two daughters.<ref>Orange (2008)</ref>

He was promoted to Air Commodore on 1 January 1925,<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=33007|supp=yes|startpage=8|date=30 December 1924|accessdate=
2010-12-1919 December 2010}}</ref> and that year took command of the newly-formed [[Auxiliary Air Force]]. In December, he was appointed to a [[League of Nations]] disarmament committee.<ref>RAF Web</ref> On 12 April 1926, he was appointed [[Deputy Chief of the Air Staff]] and Director of Operations and Intelligence.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=33152|supp=|startpage=2705|date=20 April 1926|accessdate=2010-12-1919 December 2010}}</ref> He stood down at the start of February 1931.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=33688|supp=|startpage=932|date=10 February 1931|accessdate=2010-12-1919 December 2010}}</ref>

Following his service on the Air Staff, he was given his first operational command posting in fifteen years, as Air Officer Commanding in the Middle East. He then returned to the Air Ministry at the start of 1935, where he was responsible for overseeing the supply and organisation of the RAF during the beginnings of the pre-war expansion and rearmament.<ref>Orange (2008)</ref>

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==References==
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*{{cite book|title=Who won the Battle of Britain?|last=Allen|first=H. R.|publisher=Panther|year=1976|isbn=0-586-04281-4}}
*{{cite journal|title='Dilly-Dally', or Having the Last Word: Field Marshal Sir John Dill and Prime Minister Winston Churchill|journal=Journal of Contemporary History|first=Alex|last=Danchev|volume=22|issue=1|month=January|year=1987|pages=21–44  | jstor = 260373}}
*{{cite web|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/35208|title=Newall, Cyril Louis Norton, first Baron Newall (1886–1963)|first=Victor|last=Orange|format=subscription required|work=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography|publisher=Oxford University Press|month=January|year=2008|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/35208|accessdate=2010-03-099 March 2010}}
*{{cite journal|volume=10|journal=Victoria University of Wellington Law Review|page=289|year=1979|title=The Governor-General's Constitutional Discretions: An Essay towards a Re-Definition|last=Quentin-Baxter|first=R. Q.}}
*{{cite journal|title=The French Navy and the Appeasement of Italy, 1937-9|journal=The English Historical Review|first=Reynolds M.|last=Salerno|volume=112|issue=445|month=February|year=1997|pages=66–104 | jstor = 578508}}
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|NAME=Newall, Cyril Louis Norton Newall, Baron
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|DATE OF BIRTH=15 February 1886
|PLACE OF BIRTH= [[Mussoorie]], [[North-Western Provinces|North-Western]]  [[British Raj|Indian Empire]]
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