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Percy Robert Clifford Groves
Brigadier-General Percy Robert Clifford Groves CB CMG DSO (26 May 1878 – 12 August 1959) was a senior British air strategist who served in the British Army and the Royal Air Force.〔''Kelly’s Handbook to the Titled, Landed and Official Classes 1958'', Published by Kelly’s Directories Limited 1958〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Brig.-Gen. Percy Robert Clifford GROVES )〕 He was a tireless campaigner for a radical rethink of Britain’s approach to air strategy following World War I, in particular for an immediate expansion of the RAF to parity with the largest European force within striking distance.〔Obituary, ''Brigadier-General P. R. C. Groves – Campaigner For Air Power'', The Times, 17 August 1959〕 He is perhaps best known as being an advocate of the aerial ‘’knock out blow’’: the possibility of ending a war in its early stages by launching a massive attack on the enemy’s centres of gravity.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Philosophers of War )〕
==Early life==
Percy Robert Clifford Groves was born on 26 May 1878 at Rai Bareli, India.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Genealogy, Family Trees & Family History Records at Ancestry.co.uk )〕 He was the eldest son of Joseph Groves who served as Commissioner of Railways for the United Provinces in India.〔Obituary, ''Brigadier-General P. R. C. Groves'', The Times, 17 August 1959〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Who's Who )〕 He was educated at Bedford Modern School.〔''The Harpur Trust 1552–1973'', by Joyce Godber, 1973〕
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