Alick Foord-Kelcey

Alick Foord-Kelcey , CBE , AFC (born April 6, 1913 in Canada ; † October 26, 1973 in Geneva ) was a British officer in the Royal Air Force , who last served as Major General (Air Vice Marshal) between 1961 and 1964 as Assistant Chief of the Air Force Staff for Intelligence (Assistant Chief of the Air Staff (Intelligence)) .

Life

Officer training, World War II and staff officer

Alick Foord-Kelcey graduated after attending The King's School in Canterbury an undergraduate degree at Corpus Christi College of the University of Cambridge , which he with a Bachelor of Arts graduated (BA). During his studies he completed pilot training in the Cambridge University Air Squadron (CUAS) and on July 1, 1934 was accepted into the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve (RAFVR), the air force's volunteer reserve . On October 1, 1935 he was accepted as a professional soldier (Permanent Commission) with the rank of Lieutenant (Pilot Officer) in the Royal Air Force (RAF) and seconded as a pilot to the Royal Air Force College Cranwell . On March 16, 1936, he became a pilot for No. 56 Squadron RAF and was promoted to first lieutenant (Flying Officer) on April 1, 1936 , this promotion being dated back to January 1, 1936. On October 1, 1937, he became pilot in command of No. 56 Squadron RAF and was promoted to captain (Flight Lieutenant) on April 1, 1938 , and this promotion was also dated back to January 1, 1938.

Subsequently, Foord-Kelcey began a flight instructor training at the Central Flying School on May 5, 1938 and after completing it on September 29, 1938 became a QFI (Qualified Flight Instructor) flight instructor himself at the flight training school 4 (No. 4 Flying Training School RAF) at the RAF Valley military airport , where he was promoted to Major (Squadron Leader) on August 1, 1939 . On July 29, 1940, he was transferred to the colony of Aden , where he was assigned to the air force staff of the British armed forces stationed there in 1941. In the further course of the Second World War he was used between 1942 and 1943 as a pilot and flight instructor in units in Arabia and the United Kingdom and was awarded the Air Force Cross (AFC) for his services on August 31, 1943 . On March 6, 1944, he was transferred to the planning department of the Air Force Staff and, from 1944, he was also a member of the Joint Planning Staff of the War Cabinet .

Post-war period and promotion to Air Vice Marshal

Alick Foord-Kelcey was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel (Wing Commander) on October 1, 1946 and found various aviation uses in the following years before he was transferred to the staff of the Joint Military Mission BJSM (British Joint Services Mission) in Washington, DC , where on January 1, 1951, he also received his promotion to Colonel (Group Captain) . On his return he was in August 1951 Commander ( Commanding Officer ) of the air base RAF Stradishall and on January 11, 1954 Senior Staff Officer SASO (Senior Air Staff Officer) of No. 12 (Fighter) Group RAF . Then he was on July 29, 1955 Assistant Chief of Staff (Operations / Intelligence) of the Allied Air Forces of NATO in Central Europe AIRCENT ( Allied Air Forces Central Europe ) . There he was raised to Commander des Order of the British Empire (CBE) on January 2, 1956 and promoted to Brigadier General ( Air Commodore ) on July 1, 1957 .

After Foord-Kelcey had attended Imperial Defense College (IDC) from January 1958 , on January 12, 1959, he became AOC (Air Officer Commanding) in command of No. 1, stationed at the RAF High Wycombe military airport . 11 Group RAF and was promoted to Major General ( Air Vice Marshal ) on January 1, 1960 . As the successor to Air Vice Marshal Leslie Dalton-Morris from March 1 until his replacement by Air Vice Marshal Walter Pretty on June 9, 1961, he was Acting Commanding General AOC-in-C ( Air Officer Commanding in Chief ) of the Air Force Telecommunications Command ( RAF Signals Command ). Most recently he replaced Air Vice Marshal Sydney Bufton as Assistant Chief of the Air Staff (Intelligence) on September 14, 1961 and held this position until he was replaced by Air Vice Marshal Harold Maguire . On December 7, 1964, he resigned from active military service at his own request.

1964 then moved Alick Foord-Kelcey Ministry of Foreign Affairs ( Foreign Office ) and was there until 1966 deputy director of the Working Group on Arms Control and Disarmament Research. He then worked as Executive Director of the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva .

Web link

• Air Vice-Marshal A Foord-Kelcey (rafweb.org)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ RAF Signals Command (rafweb.org)