Annexes

Annex A

AOC-in-C Bomber Command

Command from:

14 July 1936

ACM Sir John Steel

12 Sep 1937

ACM Sir Edgar Ludlow-Hewitt

2 Apr 1940

AVM C. F. Portal

5 Oct 1940

AM Sir Richard E. Peirse

8 Jan 1942

(acting AOC) AVM J. E. Baldwin

22 Feb 1942

AVM A. T. Harris

15 Sep 1945

AM Sir Norman Bottomley

16 Jan 1947

AM Sir Hugh W. L. Saunders

8 Oct 1947

AM A. B. (later Sir Aubrey) Ellwood

2 Feb 1950

AM (later ACM) Sir Hugh P. Lloyd

9 Apr 1953

AM G. H. (later Sir George) Mills

22 Jan 1956

AM (later ACM) Sir Harry Broadhurst

20 May 1959

AM Sir Kenneth Cross

1 Sep 1963

AM Sir John Grandy

19 Feb 1965

ACM Sir Wallace Kyle

A number of Bomber Command airfields have memorials to the squadrons that operated from them in the Second World War; this memorial to 462 and 466 Squadrons RAAF is situated in North End Park at Driffield.

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