Nickname(s) "Bull" Allegiance United Kingdom Name Leslie Cannon | Years of service 1920–1958 Place of burial Penn, United Kingdom Rank Air vice-marshal | |
Born 9 April 1904 ( 1904-04-09 ) Commands held Commander-in-Chief Royal Pakistan Air Force (1951–55)RAF Staff College, Andover (1948–49)No. 85 Group (1946–47)No. 2 Group (1946)No. 138 Wing (1943)RAF Watton (1942–43)No. 5 Squadron (1937–38) Battles/wars North-West FrontierSecond World War Battles and wars Military history of the North-West Frontier, World War II | ||
Air Vice Marshal Leslie William Cannon CB, CBE (9 April 1904 – 27 January 1986) was a senior Royal Air Force officer. He served as Commander-in-Chief of the Royal Pakistan Air Force from 1952 to 1955.
Military career
Cannon enlisted in the Royal Air Force (RAF) in the second entry of aircraft apprentices in 1920, and was commissioned as a pilot in 1925.
From 1948 until late 1949, Cannon was Assistant Commandant and then Commandant of the RAF Staff College, Andover.
He served as a Flight Commander in No. 60 Squadron RAF and then Officer Commanding No. 5 Squadron RAF on the North-West Frontier of India in the 1930s. Eventually attaining the rank of air vice marshal (the first apprentice to achieve air rank), he served as Commander-in-Chief of the Royal Pakistan Air Force from 1952 to 1955.