Ivor Curtis
Instructor Captain Ivor Curtis, C.B.E., M.A., A.M.I.Mech.E. (? – October, 1928) was an officer of the Royal Navy during the First World War before becoming an educational specialist in the Royal Air Force.
He was educated at Wimbourne Grammar School and Peterhouse. Curtis received his M.A. from St. Johns, Cambridge on 14 June, 1914. He then joined the Royal Navy as a Naval Instructor, on 12 November, 1903 being appointed to the old battleship Repulse. As of 1917 Curtis was Deputy Inspector of Naval Schools. In 1918 he became Educational Adviser to the Air Ministry where he remained until his death in 1928, with the rank of Colonel. He retired from the Royal Navy with the rank of Instructor Captain under the new rank scheme in 1920.
His widow, Margaret Lucy Christabel Curtis, died at Taunton on 2 January, 1944. He had two children, John Shearne and Mary Christabel.
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