Leonard Cheshire
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![Cheshire's home in Chester, where a blue plaque marks the house in which he was born.](/Images/godic/202501/23/Birthplace_of_Leonard_Cheshire_VC_-_geograph.org.uk_-_6750711028.jpg")
![A portrait of Cheshire in 1945](/Images/godic/202501/23/Dropping_of_the_Atomic_Bomb_on_Japan,_August_1945_CH136261028.jpg")
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Group Captain Geoffrey Leonard Cheshire, Baron Cheshire VC, OM, DSO & Two Bars, DFC (7 September 1917 – 31 July 1992) was a highly decorated Royal Air Force (RAF) pilot during the Second World War and later philanthropist.
Among the honours Cheshire received as a pilot is the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.