senior officer in the Royal Air Force. He notably commanded the RAF's Z Force in British Somaliland in 1920 as part of the Somaliland campaign. Gordon was...
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Robert Gordon, British record producer, member of the Forgemasters Robert Gordon (RAF officer) (1882–1954), British officer Robert MacIntyre Gordon (1899–1983)...
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process George Denholm, RAF fighter pilot. David Howard, 7th Earl of Effingham, naval officer Robert Gordon, RAF officer Sandy Gunn, RAF photo reconnaissance...
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Royal Air Force (redirect from RAF stations)
The Royal Air Force (RAF) is the air and space force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies. It was formed towards...
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Robert Alexander Barton, OBE, DFC & Bar (7 June 1916 – 2 September 2010) was a Canadian-born officer who served in the Royal Air Force (RAF) during the...
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Gould Lee, MC (31 August 1894 – 21 May 1975) was a senior officer of the Royal Air Force (RAF). He began his flying career in the Royal Flying Corps during...
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station commander, eventually becoming the RAF's Director of Training in 1935, and was Air Officer Commanding RAF Mediterranean from 1938 until after the...
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warfare was indicated by the number of senior officers who did hold the rank of major-general in the RAF: Edward Ashmore Sefton Brancker George Cayley...
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commanding officer from 1963 to 1966 Jimmy Edwards, treated for burns at RAFH Ely Robert Gordon, member of the groundcrew on No. 9 Squadron RAF, died in...
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was the last RAF squadron to be formed mostly of escaped Czechoslovak pilots. Its first commander was the British Squadron Leader Gordon Sinclair. On...
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was essentially the same as the RAF insignia. In 2006 the Pakistan Air Force changed the rank insignia for its officers, abandoning the ring insignia in...
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unemployed officer list in September 1919. In October 1921 Vasse rejoined the RAF on a short service commission in the rank of flying officer and posted...
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fourteen officers have survived. Some of the major themes explored in the script include: the snobbery and class-consciousness that existed in the RAF during...
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Trafford Leigh-Mallory (category Lancashire Fusiliers officers)
Flying School and station commander at RAF Digby before serving as a staff officer overseas. He was posted to the RAF in Iraq in Christmas 1935, and, having...
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Frederick Bowhill (category Royal Navy officers)
Staff to Group Captain Robert Gordon for the highly successful Somaliland campaign. He went on to be Officer Commanding the RAF Depot in Egypt in 1925...
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Philip Christison Vasily Chuikov Gareth Clayton (RAF officer) William T. Clement Henry Crowe (RAF officer) Andrew Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of...
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Group Captain Robert Gordon Yaxley, DSO, MC, DFC (1912 – 3 June 1943) was a Royal Air Force pilot and commander during the Second World War. Yaxley was...
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Buckinghamshire. The other operational group is No. 2 Group RAF. The current Air Officer Commanding No 1 Group is Air Vice-Marshal Mark Flewin, who took...
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now No. 213 Squadron RAF, and took command in May 1918. In August 1918 he took command of the newly formed No.233 Squadron RAF which had a Fighter Defence...
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George Croil (category People educated at Robert Gordon's College)
to Britain where he served as a liaison officer with the RAF. Croil also took a course of training at the RAF Staff College, Andover. Returning to Canada...
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Antoni Janusz (category Polish Army officers)
attached to the No. 138 RAF Squadron as the RAF 301 Special Duties Flight Squadron. From this moment until 1953, Antoni Janusz became a RAF soldier. He trained...
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battalion mess officer. A number of the company's non-commissioned officers (NCOs) decided to give the regimental commander, Colonel Robert Sink, an ultimatum:...
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II: Wings of Victory Robert Shaw plays an unnamed squadron leader, referred to as "Skipper" – RAF slang for a commanding officer. His only other appellation...
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an English-born Canadian officer and flying ace who served in the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) and the Royal Air Force (RAF) during the Second World...
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Squadron Leader Michael Andrew Gordon MBE, Royal Air Force; Jaguar Flight Commander, No. 41 Squadron RAF Squadron Leader Robert Ian McAlpine, Royal Air Force;...
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Eagle Squadrons (redirect from RAF Eagle Squadrons)
Supermarine Spitfires before being ostensibly commissioned as RAF officers and posted to front-line RAF fighter squadrons. The American pilots assigned to the...
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The Royal Air Force Regiment (RAF Regiment) is part of the Royal Air Force and functions as a specialist corps. Founded by Royal Warrant in 1942, the...
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Eyes" Cunningham, RAF officer and ace pilot Air Vice-Marshal John Downey, RAF officer and fighter pilot Bryan Draper, RAF officer and flying ace Captain...
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Flight Lieutenant Pierre Clostermann, French RAF officer, awarded RAF DFC and bar in 1945. Flight Lieutenant Robert Clothier, RCAF, and later a noted Canadian...
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Major-General Bernard Charles Gordon Lennox, CB, MBE (19 September 1932 – 27 December 2017) was a senior British Army officer. He served as Commandant of...
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