renaming HQ British Forces in Iraq, the former RAF Iraq Command. AHQ Iraq was renamed AHQ Iraq and Persia on 1 January 1943. AHQ Iraq and Persia was a sub-command...
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East Africa Air Headquarters (Pakistan Air Force) AHQ Iraq AHQ Levant AHQ Malta Desert Air Force ahq e-Sports Club, an esports team based in Taiwan Ah...
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of Mesopotamia. It continued as British Forces in Iraq until 1941 when it was replaced by AHQ Iraq. It consisted of Royal Air Force, Royal Navy, British...
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command. RAF Iraq Command AHQ Iraq and Persia Footnotes Citations Mackenzie, p. 591 Playfair, p. 128 Playfair, pp. 128–129 Lyman, Robert (2006). Iraq 1941: The...
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1943. An AHQ Levant was reformed on 1 May 1955 when AHQ Iraq was renamed AHQ Levant as an interim measure following a new agreement with the Iraq Government...
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the Second World War. After the war he served as Air Officer Commanding AHQ Iraq before retiring in 1949. Air of Authority – A History of RAF Organisation...
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Officer Commanding No. 21 (Training) Group. He became Air Officer Commanding AHQ Iraq and Persia in 1943 and then became Head of the RAF delegation in Washington...
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Desert Air Force (redirect from AHQ Western Desert)
(Bomber-Transport) Squadron RAF, Bombay, Heliopolis AHQ Sudan had 254 Wing with No. 14, No. 223 and No. 47 squadrons, AHQ Aden had No. 8, No. 11, and No. 39 squadrons...
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reduced to six AHQs (AHQ Italy, AHQ Iraq, AHQ East Africa, AHQ Greece (under Air Commodore Geoffrey Tuttle in 1944-45), AHQ Levant, AHQ Malta), plus HQ...
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Eastward, 86-87). The AHQ was disbanded 1 November 1957 . AHQ Hong Kong – included as part of British Forces, Hong Kong in 1967 AHQ India formed 16 August...
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He continued his war service as Air Officer Commanding British Forces in Iraq from June 1941, Air Officer Commanding No. 222 Group in Ceylon from March...
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(AHQ) East Africa under Air Vice Marshal Harold Kerby; Air Headquarters (AHQ) Levant under Air Commodore Bernard McEntegart; and Air Headquarters (AHQ)...
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senior Royal Air Force officer who commanded British Air Forces in Persia and Iraq during the Second World War. De Crespigny was born in Brighton, Victoria...
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Bedford School and at the Royal Air Force College Cranwell. After serving in Iraq, the Western Desert, Aden and with Bomber Command during World War II, he...
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Shaibah Air Base (category 1920 establishments in Iraq)
" RAF Shaibah was under the control of the RAF's Air Headquarters Iraq (see AHQ Iraq and Persia). At this time several units were located at Shaibah. They...
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he was Air Attaché in Ankara. He went on to be Air Officer Commanding AHQ Iraq and Persia in 1944. After the War he served as Air Attaché in Paris until...
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Organisation. Retrieved 30 April 2015. Barrass, M.B. (2015). "Overseas Commands – Iraq, India and the Far East". RAFWeb.org. Air of Authority – A History of RAF...
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Air Headquarters East Africa (redirect from AHQ East Africa)
Headquarters East Africa (or AHQ East Africa) was a command of the British Royal Air Force (RAF) formed on 19 October 1940 by expanding AHQ RAF Nairobi. On 15 December...
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he took up in July 1945. After the War he became Air Officer Commanding AHQ Iraq and went on to be Controller of Supply (Air) at the Ministry of Supply...
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Staff College in 1953, a year-long posting as Command Signals Officer, AHQ Iraq followed. From 1955–58 he was Chief Instructor of the Signals Division...
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Force June 1949 November 1971 AHQ Hong Kong & No. 224 Group RAF Disbanded Iraq Command October 1922 1938 All RAF units in Iraq Disbanded Mediterranean Air...
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(Tactical) Wing RAF was formed on 4 March 1954 at RAF Habbaniya under AHQ Iraq controlling No. 6 Squadron RAF and No. 73 Squadron RAF, both operating...
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Middle East, 1980, 295-7. Appendix A is the RAF Order of Battle in AHQ Persia and Iraq, AHQ East Africa and HQ British Forces, Aden, in November 1945, pp295-298...
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Artillery Battery Commander (1991–1993), GSO-II in AHQ Military Training Directorate and GSO-I of AHQ Pay Pension & Allowance Directorate. Ahmed commanded...
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group was disbanded on 15 October 1945 becoming Air Headquarters Ceylon (AHQ Ceylon). It had inherited six Liberator squadrons (Nos 99, 356, 203, 8, 160...
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28 and 32 Squadrons reported directly to de la Ferte's headquarters; the AHQ Communications Flight was at Lahore; a Target Towing Flight at Trincomalee;...
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RAF Hinaidi (category Military history of Iraq)
duties in Iraq as a result of the Cairo Conference. There were extensive barracks, recreational facilities, a large hospital, Air Headquarters (AHQ), communication...
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1953. He went on to be Air Officer Commanding AHQ Singapore in February 1957, Air Officer Commanding AHQ Hong Kong in November 1957 and Assistant Chief...
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Air Commodore Nur Khan, Turkish Air Force Chief Hamdullah Suphi Göker, Iraqi Air Force Chief Abdul Kadhim Abaddi, Chief of the Imperial Iranian Air Force...
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Prime Minister's Office Para-Commando Brigade (The Cheetahs) – Under Command AHQ, Dhaka, Bangladesh Army Special Warfare Diving And Salvage (SWADS) – Bangladesh...
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