J. E. S. de Graft-Hayford
Military Person
1912 – 2002
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Who was J. E. S. de Graft-Hayford?
John Ebenezer Samuel de Graft-Hayford was Ghana's first Ghanaian Chief of Air Staff. He became the first indigenous Air Force Commander in Ghana and Black Sub-Saharan Africa. He was also acting Chief of Defence Staff for a brief period in 1962.
He was a Ghanaian born in the United Kingdom. Apart from being of Ghanaian origin, he had Dutch and German maternal blood lines. Among a host of other earlier achievements he showed an excellence in sport, particularly the art of boxing.
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