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David Geach

Royal Air

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 9, 2025
Entity authorityQ19802299 ↗
Source-derived summary

David Gilbert Geach OBE (28 July 1923 – 25 February 2015) was a Royal Air Force bomb aimer during the Second World War. After the war, Geach was Registrar of Business Names for England and Wales until 1982. He also fought a long and ultimately successful campaign to have a memorial erected to lost RAF fliers at Lord's in London.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “David Geach” as royal Air. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1923, 2015, 1982—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1923-07-28. The account is most persuasive where David, Geach and Royal can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as royal Air. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 9, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q19802299. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1923, 2015 and 1982.

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This entry incorporates text from “David Geach” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.