Air Chief Marshal Sir Philip Bennet Joubert de la Fert KCB, CMG, DSO was a senior commander in the Royal Air Force during the 1930s and the Second World War.
Joubert de la Fert was born in Darjeeling, India to Colonel Charles Henry Joubert de la Fert and Eliza Jane ne Meville. He was of partial French descent, his paternal grandfather having emigrated to England in 1840. He was sent to England as a child where he attended Elstree School and later Harrow School.
Source: Wikipedia