Chakrabongse Bhuvanath
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Field Marshal Prince Chakrabongse Bhuvanath, the Prince of Phitsanulok, (March 3, 1883 - June 13, 1920) (Thai: สมเด็จพระเจ้าบรมวงศ์เธอ เจ้าฟ้าจักรพงษ์ภูวนาถ กรมหลวงพิษณุโลกประชานาถ), was a son of King Chulalongkorn of Siam and Queen Saovabha.
The Prince was sent to Czarist Russia in his teens, where he studied at a military academy. He returned to Siam with a Russian wife and an honorary commission in a Hussar regiment. They had one son, Prince Chula Chakrabongse.
Prince Chakrabongse served as Chief of Staff of the Royal Siamese Army until his death at the age of 37 in 1920.
He and his brother Prince Purachatra, Commander of the Army Engineers, were instrumental in the development of aviation in the Kingdom. Prince Chakrabongse is best remembered today as the father of the army's Royal Aeronautical Service, a forerunner to the Royal Thai Air Force.
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