Air Cdre James Michael Birkin CB DSO OBE DFC AFC DL RAF (23 April 1912 – 17 November 1985) was a Royal Air Force officer.‘BIRKIN, Air Commodore James Michael’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2007; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2012; online edn, Nov 2012 accessed 27 Dec 2013
He served during the Second World War where he was awarded the AFC (1942), DFC (1944) and DSO (1944). After the war he was aide-de-camp to Queen Elizabeth II from 1957 to 1963, and High Sheriff of the Isle of Wight.
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