Geoffrey Tindal-Carill-Worsley

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Geoffrey Nicolas Ernest Tindal-Carill-Worsley CB CBE ( June 8, 1908 - April 28, 1996 ) was a British Air Force officer in the Royal Air Force , who was last in the rank of Air Commodore between 1959 and 1960 as head of the technical training department in Ministry of Aviation was.

Life

Pilot training and World War II

Tindal-Carill-Worsley, son of the lawyer, landowner and sheriff of Norfolk Philip Tindal-Carill-Worsley and cousin of Air Force officer Nicolas Tindal-Carill-Worsley , began his aviation training in 1926 as a flight cadet in the B- after attending Eton College. Squadron of Royal Air Force College Cranwell , the officers' school of the British Air Forces , and was part of the college fencing team . He also won the RM Groves Memorial Prize there . After completing his training, he was accepted into the RAF as a professional soldier ( Permanent Commission ) on July 28, 1928 , and after his simultaneous promotion to Lieutenant ( Pilot Officer ), he was a pilot at No. 3 Squadron RAF . After he had been promoted to first lieutenant ( Flying Officer ) on January 28, 1930 , he became a weapons system officer with No. 20 (R) Squadron and then deployed to the RAF Air Force Depot on April 15, 1932. He then moved on January 30, 1933, first as a weapons system officer to the RAF Andover military airfield and then on February 21, 1934 as a weapons system officer to RAF College Cranwell, where he was promoted to captain ( flight lieutenant ) on August 1, 1934 .

Then Tindal-Carill-Worsley changed on December 7, 1937 as an officer in the Joint Department for Scientific Research and Technical Development of the Air Force Staff and was promoted to Major ( Squadron Leader ) on February 1, 1938 . After he was an officer in the technical department of the Air Force Staff between April 24, 1940 and August 14, 1942, he became a weapons system officer at the headquarters of the Air Forces in the Middle East ( RAF Middle East Command ). On June 2, 1943, he became Commander of the Order of the British Empire . Since January 20, 1944, he served as a staff officer for weapons systems at the headquarters of the Allied Air Forces in the Mediterranean area, MAAF ( Mediterranean Allied Air Forces ) and was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel ( Wing Commander ) on June 1, 1944 . He was mentioned twice in the war report for his services in World War II ( Mentioned in dispatches )

Post-war period and promotion to Air Commodore

After the war, Tindal-Carill-Worsley graduated from the Joint Service Staff College and was promoted to Colonel ( Group Captain ) on July 1, 1947 . On December 21, 1950, he was appointed Chief Technical Staff Officer STSO ( Senior Technical Staff Officer ) at the headquarters of the RAF Flying Training Command , where he was promoted to Air Commodore on January 1, 1951 . On January 1, 1954, he was also Companion of the Order of the Bath . After attending Imperial Defense College , he became the commander of the Technical Training School 1 ( No. 1 School of Technical Training RAF ) in 1954 and remained in this position until he was replaced by Group Captain Eric Nelson in 1956. After that, on June 14, 1956, he became chief technical staff officer at the headquarters of the air Force in the Far East ( Far East air Force ).

Most recently, Tindal-Carill-Worsley became head of the Department of Technical Training in the Air Ministry on May 18, 1959, when he retired from active military service on August 29, 1960.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ London Gazette . No. 34341, HMSO, London, November 17, 1936, p. 7409 ( PDF , accessed February 12, 2016, English).
  2. ↑ London Gazette . No. 33414, HMSO, London, August 21, 1928, p. 5575 ( PDF , accessed February 12, 2016, English).
  3. ↑ London Gazette . No. 33589, HMSO, London, March 18, 1930, p. 1731 ( PDF , accessed February 12, 2016, English).
  4. ↑ London Gazette . No. 34478, HMSO, London, February 1, 1938, p. 670 ( PDF , accessed February 12, 2016, English).
personal data
SURNAME Tindal-Carill-Worsley, Geoffrey
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tindal-Carill-Worsley, Geoffrey Nicolas Ernest (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British Air Force officer in the United Kingdom
DATE OF BIRTH June 8, 1908
DATE OF DEATH April 28, 1996