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RAF Home Command

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Country
  
United Kingdom

Motto(s)
  
Support

Branch
  
Royal Air Force

RAF Home Command

Active
  
1 February 1939–27 May 1940 1 May 1946–1 April 1959

Garrison/HQ
  
Wantage Hall, University of Reading

RAF Home Command was the Royal Air Force command that was responsible for the maintenance and training of reserve organisations from formation on 1 February 1939 as RAF Reserve Command with interruptions until it ceased to exist on 1 April 1959.

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History

The Command was formed as RAF Reserve Command on 1 February 1939. It was absorbed into RAF Flying Training Command on 27 May 1940 but reformed again on 1 May 1946. It was then renamed RAF Home Command on 1 August 1950 and absorbed into RAF Flying Training Command again on 1 April 1959.

Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief

Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief included:
RAF Reserve Command

  • 1 February 1939 Air Marshal Sir Christopher Courtney
  • 28 August 1939 Air Chief Marshal Sir John Steel
  • 22 April 1940 Air Vice Marshal Sir William Welsh
    • Note: The Command was not in existence from May 1940 to May 1946
  • 1 May 1946 Air Commodore E D H Davies (Temporary)
  • 20 May 1946 Air Marshal Sir Alan Lees
  • 1 October 1949 Air Marshal Sir Robert Foster

    • RAF Home Command

  • 1 August 1950 Air Marshal Sir Robert Foster
  • 31 Mar 1952 Air Marshal Sir Ronald Ivelaw-Chapman
  • 1 October 1952 Air Marshal Sir Harold Lydford
  • March 1956 Air Marshal Sir Douglas Macfadyen

    • References

    RAF Home Command Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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