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Air Vice-Marshal Francis "Frank" Frederic Inglis CB, CBE (22 June 1899 – 25 September 1969) was a British officer in the Royal Air Force who became the head of RAF Intelligence Staff during the Second World War, reporting to Winston Churchill. In 1942 he was sent to America by Churchill, where he successfully persuaded President Franklin D. Roosevelt to direct the main American war effort against Germany rather than Japan. ==Family and early life== Inglis was the fourth child of Alfred Markham Inglis (1856–1919) (a banker who had previously played cricket for Kent) and Ernestine (Nina) May Pigou (1863–1941). His grandparents were Major-General Sir John Eardley Inglis and Lady Julia Inglis, who had survived the Siege of Lucknow, and Francis Pigou, the Dean of Bristol.〔 His sister, Mildred Inglis (1897–1979), was married to (Sir) Victor Goddard (1897–1987) who was a senior commander in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War.〔 Inglis was educated at Royal Military College, Sandhurst, and graduated in 1918, from where he was commissioned into the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry. In the summer of 1927, he married Vera Helen "Midge" Turner (b. 1906).〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.william1.co.uk/r41.htm )〕 They had three daughters:〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.inglis.uk.com/coldstoreindex.htm )〕 *Wendy Inglis (born 16 May 1928), who married Wing Commander Peter William Helmore D.F.C., A.F.C. (son of Air Commodore William Helmore) *Diana Gillian "Jill" Inglis (born 15 June 1931), who married Jeremy Howard-Williams D.F.C., a former night fighter pilot *Julia Margaret Inglis (born 11 September 1940), who married The Reverend (Gerard) Christopher Morgan Miles His cousin, John Inglis was head of Naval Intelligence from 1954 to 1960. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Frank Inglis」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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