Allegiance United Kingdom Died January 12, 1999 Years of service 1952–1986 Education Hull Grammar School | Name Donald Hall Service/branch Royal Air Force Role RAF officer Rank Air marshal | |
Commands held No. 111 Squadron
Empire Test Pilots' School
RAF Akrotiri
No. 11 Group
No. 38 Group Awards Order of the Bath, Order of the British Empire, Air Force Cross | ||
Air Marshal Sir Donald Percy Hall, KCB, CBE, AFC, FRAeS (11 November 1930 – 12 January 1999) was a Royal Air Force officer who served as Deputy Chief of Defence Staff (Systems) from 1983 to 1986.
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Flying career
Educated at Hull Grammar School and the Royal Air Force College Cranwell, Hall was commissioned into the Royal Air Force in 1952. He became Officer Commanding No. 111 Squadron in 1966. He went on to be Junior Members Co-ordinator at the Imperial Defence College in 1968, Officer Commanding the Empire Test Pilots' School in 1971 and Station Commander of RAF Akrotiri in 1973. After that, he became Senior Air Staff Officer at Headquarters No. 11 Group in 1975, Air Officer Commanding No. 11 Group in March 1977 and Assistant Chief of the Air Staff (Operational Requirements) in September 1977. He went on to be Air Officer Commanding No. 38 Group in 1980 and Deputy Chief of the Defence Staff (Systems) in 1983 before retiring in 1986.
In retirement he became Deputy Chairman of GEC-Marconi.
Family
In 1953 he married Joyce Warburton; they had two daughters, Melanie and Jilly.