Allegiance United Kingdom Name Charles Broughton Rank Air Marshal | Years of service 1930–1968 Service/branch Royal Air Force | |
Born 27 April 1911
New Zealand ( 1911-04-27 ) Died 17 May 1998(1998-05-17) (aged 87) Commands held Air Member for Supply and Organisation (1966–68)
RAF Stornoway (1941)
No. 48 Squadron (1941) | ||
Air Marshal Sir Charles Broughton, (27 April 1911 – 17 May 1998) was a Royal Air Force officer who served as Air Member for Supply and Organisation from 1966 until his retirement in 1968.
RAF career
Broughton joined the Royal Air Force in 1930. He served in the Second World War as Officer Commanding No. 48 Squadron and then as Station Commander at RAF Stornoway before joining the Air Staff at Headquarters No. 15 Group. He continued his war service as Senior Personnel Staff Officer at Headquarters Air Defence Eastern Mediterranean and then as a member of the Directing Staff at the RAF Staff College (Overseas) in Haifa.
After the war he was on the staff at Headquarters RAF Flying Training Command and then at the Air Ministry. He was appointed Senior Air Staff Officer at Headquarters RAF Transport Command in 1958, Director-General of Organisation at the Air Ministry in 1961 and UK Permanent Military Deputy at CENTO in 1965 before becoming Air Member for Supply and Organisation in 1966, and retiring in 1968.