Air Marshal

Air Marshal

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 Sir Douglas Macfadyen KCB

Order of the Bath

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 CBE

Order of the British Empire

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 (8 August 1902 - 26 July 1968) was a Royal Air Force

Royal Air Force

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 officer who became Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief at RAF Home Command

RAF Home Command

RAF Home Command was the Royal Air Force command which 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.-History:...

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RAF career

Macfadyen joined the Royal Air Force as a cadet in 1920. After a tour as Adjutant of the London University Air Squadron

University Air Squadron

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, he became Officer Commanding

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 No. 105 Squadron

No. 105 Squadron RAF

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 in May 1939 and served in World War II

World War II

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 in that role before joining the Planning Staff at Headquarters British Air Forces in France

France

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. He continued his war service at the Directorate of War Organisation, at Headquarters Eastern Air Command and at Headquarters North-West African Air Forces before being made Director of Policy (Air Staff) at the Air Ministry

Air Ministry

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 in 1944.

After the War he became Commandant of the Officer’s Advanced Training School at RAF Digby

RAF Digby

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 and then at RAF Hornchurch

RAF Hornchurch

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. He was appointed Director of Plans at the Air Ministry in January 1949, Assistant Chief of the Air Staff (Policy) in August 1949 and Air Officer commanding British Forces Aden

British Forces Aden

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 in 1952. He went on to be Commandant of the RAF Staff College, Bracknell

RAF Staff College, Bracknell

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 in 1953 and Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief at RAF Home Command

RAF Home Command

RAF Home Command was the Royal Air Force command which 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.-History:...

in 1956 before retiring in 1959.