Leonard Monk Isitt

Air Vice Marshal Sir Leonard Monk Isitt KBE was a New Zealand military aviator and senior air force commander. In 1943 he became the first New Zealander to serve as the Chief of the Air Staff of the Royal New Zealand Air Force, a post he held until 1946. At the close of World War II, Isitt was the New Zealand signatory to the Japanese Instrument of Surrender. After the war he worked as chairman of Tasman Empire Airways.

Leonard Monk Isitt was born onJuly 1891 in Christchurch, New Zealand, the son of the Methodist minister, member of parliament and prohibitionist Leonard Monk Isitt and Agnes Martha Caverhill. Leonard Monk Isitt junior was educated at Mostyn House, Cheshire, England and Christchurch Boys High School. He had one brother, Willard Whitmore Isitt who was a Rifleman in the New Zealand Rifle Brigade in World War I and was killed in France onOctober 1916.

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