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Allegiance
  
United Kingdom

Died
  
June 15, 1991

Years of service
  
1926–1961

Battles and wars
  
World War II


Battles/wars
  
World War II

Service/branch
  
Name
  
Douglas Jackman

Rank
  
Air marshal

Douglas Jackman Douglas Jackman obituary and death notice on InMemoriam

Commands held
  
No. 40 GroupRAF Maintenance Command

Awards
  
Order of the British Empire, Order of the Bath

Air Marshal Sir Harold Douglas Jackman, (26 October 1902 – 15 June 1991) was a senior Royal Air Force officer who served as Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief Maintenance Command from 1958 until his retirement in 1961.

RAF career

Jackman joined the Royal Air Force in 1926 initially serving as a Stores Officer. He served in the Second World War as an Administrative Staff Officer at Headquarters RAF Middle East, then as Air Officer Administration at Headquarters Mediterranean Air Command before becoming Assistant Air Officer Administration at Headquarters Mediterranean Allied Air Forces and then Air Officer Administration at Headquarters Balkan Air Force.

After the war he was appointed Director of Movements and then Director of Organisation (Forecasting and Planning) at the Air Ministry. He went on to be Air Officer Commanding No. 40 (Maintenance) Group in 1952, Director-General of Equipment at the Air Ministry in 1955 and Air Officer Commanding Maintenance Command in 1958, where he laid the foundation stone for a new Headquarters at Andover before retiring in 1961.

In retirement he became Chief Co-ordinator of the Anglo-American Community Relations Scheme in the UK.

References

Douglas Jackman Wikipedia


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