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Allegiance
  
United Kingdom

Name
  
John Baker-Carr

Rank
  
Air Marshal

Years of service
  
1929–1964

Service/branch
  

Born
  
13 January 1906 (
1906-01-13
)

Died
  
9 July 1998(1998-07-09) (aged 92)

Commands held
  
Air Member for Supply and Organisation (1963)No. 41 Group (1959–62)RAF St Athan (1953–56)

Air Marshal Sir John Darcy Baker-Carr, (13 January 1906 – 9 July 1998) was a senior Royal Air Force commander during the early 1960s.

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Origins

He was the second son of Brigadier General Christopher D'Arcy Bloomfield Saltren Baker-Carr (1878–1949) and his first wife Sarah de Witt (1880–1969), daughter of William Russell Quinan who was in the explosives business with Kenneth Bingham Quinan (his nephew).

RAF career

Baker-Carr joined the Royal Air Force in 1929. He served in the Second World War in the Technical Branch. After the war he was appointed Deputy Director of Personnel at the Air Ministry and then Station Commander at RAF St Athan from 1953. He went on to be Air Officer Commanding No. 41 Group in 1959 and then acting Air Member for Supply and Organisation in early 1963 before retiring in 1964.

Family

On 30 June 1934 at Hambledon, Hampshire, he married Margery Alexandra (1907–2003), daughter of Major-General Alistair Grant Dallas CB CMG. They had no children.

References

John Baker-Carr Wikipedia