Word: coningham
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Australia Test Match to attend the birth of his son in 1895. Arthur was born in Brisbane, but grew up and was educated in New Zealand, prefers to be known as a New Zealander. "Lloyd George," he says, "is known as a Welshman, yet he was born in Manchester." Coningham's odd nickname, "Mary," is a corruption of Maori, which means a New Zealand aborigine. In the service of a country whose red-blooded he-men are often Cyrils, Cuthberts, Clarences and Vivians, he does not mind being called "Mary." But he strenuously objected to a newspaper article which...
More light on Z followed for the Germans when Coningham again used his whole force to bomb Tunis. It was the payoff. Tunis surrendered in 48 hours. He considers this his best tactical performance up to the Normandy invasion...
...Redoubtable Warrior." Arthur Coningham is over six feet tall, and built to scale. Sleek, urbane, convivial, popular, he does not smoke, drinks practically nothing (an occasional sherry, gin-&-bitters or small whiskey with meals). Win ston Churchill once referred to him as "no mere technician but a redoubtable warrior...
...Plane for a Horse. On the first day of World War I, Coningham enlisted as an infantryman. Later he bought a horse, joined a cavalry outfit and went to Egypt. There he caught dysentery and enteric, dropped in weight from 170 to 98 lbs., was invalided home. Well again after six months, he went to England, joined the Royal Flying Corps, won the Military Cross and the D.S.O. during a single month. He stayed on in the Royal Air Force after the war, won the Air Force Cross in 1925 for leading a 5,600-mile flight of three...
Always interested in the next new thing, Coningham is in constant touch with aircraft designers, technicians, manufacturers. The next big thing, he says, will be jet-propelled fighters. "They are going to make our present fighters as obsolete as the monoplane made the biplane...