{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2021}} {{Infobox military person |name= Sir Francis Fressanges |image= |image_size= |alt= |caption= |nickname= |birth_date= {{birth date|1902|02|27|df=yes}} |birth_place= |death_date= {{death date and age|1975|10|17|1902|02|27|df=yes}} |death_place= |burial_place= |allegiance= United Kingdom |branch= Royal Air Force |service_years= 1921–1957 |rank= Air Marshal |service_number= |unit= |commands= Far East Air Force (1954–57)<br/>British Forces Aden (1950–52)<br/>No. 47 Group (1944–46)<br/>No. 95 Squadron (1941)<br/>No. 210 Squadron (1940)<br/>No. 84 Squadron (1935–37) |battles= Second World War |awards= Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire<br/>Companion of the Order of the Bath<br/>Mentioned in Despatches<br/>Legionnaire of the Legion of Merit (United States) |relations= |other_work= }} Air Marshal '''Sir Francis Joseph Fressanges''', {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|sep=,|KBE|CB}} (27 February 1902 – 17 October 1975) was a senior Royal Air Force officer who served as Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief at Far East Air Force from 1954 to 1957.

==RAF career== Fressanges joined the Royal Air Force (RAF) as a cadet in 1921.<ref name=air>[https://www.rafweb.org/Biographies/Fressanges.htm Air of Authority – A History of RAF Organisation – Air Marshal Sir Francis Fressanges]</ref> He served with No. 28 Squadron during North West Frontier operations.<ref>[http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1957/1957%20-%201449.html Beside the Bamboo Curtain] Flight International, 4 October 1957</ref> He was appointed Officer Commanding No. 84 Squadron in 1935 and then became a Staff Officer in the Directorate of Training at the Air Ministry.<ref name=air/> He served in the Second World War as Officer Commanding No. 210 Squadron and then as Officer Commanding No. 95 Squadron before becoming deputy director and then Director of Overseas Operations at the Air Ministry.<ref name=air/> He completed his war service as Air Officer Commanding No. 47 Group.<ref name=air/>

After the war Fressanges was appointed director of operations at the Air Ministry and then Air Officer Commanding British Forces Aden before taking over as Assistant Chief of the Air Staff (Intelligence) at the Air Ministry in 1952.<ref name=air/> He became Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief at Far East Air Force in 1954 and retired in 1957.<ref name=air/>

==Death== He died in October 1975.<ref name="Tren2009">{{cite book |last1=Trenear-Harvey |first1=Glenmore S. |title=Historical Dictionary of Air Intelligence |date=2009 |publisher=Scarecrow Press |isbn=978-0-8108-6294-4 |page=69 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pyct3zW6MfwC&dq=Francis+Fressanges&pg=PA69 |language=en}}</ref>

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{{s-start}} {{s-mil}} {{s-bef|before=Alick Stevens}} {{s-ttl|title={{nowrap|Air Officer Commanding British Forces Aden}} | years=1950–1952}} {{s-aft|after=Douglas Macfadyen}} |- {{s-bef|before=Neill Ogilvie-Forbes}} {{s-ttl|title=Assistant Chief of the Air Staff (Intelligence)|years=1952–1954}} {{s-aft|after=William MacDonald}} |- {{s-bef|before=Sir Clifford Sanderson}} {{s-ttl|title=Commander-in-Chief Far East Air Force|years=1954–1957}} {{s-aft|after=The Earl of Bandon}} {{end}}

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