Harold Balfour, 1st Baron Balfour of Inchrye

A. Maddocks, and educated at Chilverton Elms School, Dover, Kent, and later at the Royal Naval College, Osborne, Isle of Wight.

He left the Royal Naval College after two years due to a combination of indiscipline and poor health, and completed his education at Blundells School in Devon.

[1] Balfour joined the 60th Rifles in 1914 and served in France for three months before he transferred to the Royal Flying Corps.

He also appeared as a contributor in the 1987 documentary 'The Cavalry of the Clouds', produced by British regional commercial television station 'HTV West'.

He left the House of Commons in 1945 and was raised to the peerage as Baron Balfour of Inchrye, of Shefford in the County of Berkshire.

During the Second World War, the Under-Secretary of State for Air, H. H. Balfour, questions an Air Commodore about 250-lb GP bombs, which are about to be loaded into a Bristol Blenheim Mark IV of the Advanced Air Striking Force on a snow-covered airfield in France.