Died 6 February 1990 Rank Air Vice Marshal Allegiance United Kingdom Battles/wars World War II | Service/branch Royal Air Force Name Neill Ogilvie-Forbes Years of service 1922–1952 | |
Air Vice Marshal Neill Charles Ogilvie-Forbes OBE (12 December 1900 – 6 February 1990) was a senior Royal Air Force officer who became Assistant Chief of the Air Staff (Intelligence).
RAF career
Educated at the Oratory School and Trinity College, Cambridge, Neill Ogilvie-Forbes joined the Royal Air Force in 1922. He became a flight commander with No. 13 Squadron in April 1933. He served in the Second World War on secondment to the Royal Iraqi Air Force from January 1939, on the Air Staff at Headquarters No. 15 Group from April 1941 and as Deputy Director of Operations (Naval Co-operation) from February 1942.
After the War he served as air attaché in Brussels from September 1945, as air attaché in Moscow from April 1948 and as Assistant Chief of the Air Staff (Intelligence) at the Air Ministry from January 1950 before retiring in July 1952.