Henry Eeles

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Henry Eeles CB CBE ( May 12, 1910 - July 1992 ) was a British Air Force officer in the Royal Air Force , who was last in the rank of Air Commodore between 1956 and 1959, head of the administrative planning department in the Air Force Staff.

Life

Pilot training and World War II

Eeles began his aviation training in 1929 as a flight cadet in the B-Squadron of the Royal Air Force College Cranwell . During his training he was a member of the RAF College's fencing and target shooting teams . After completing his training, he was promoted to lieutenant ( pilot officer ) on December 20, 1930 and accepted into the RAF as a professional soldier ( permanent commission ). At the same time he was used as a pilot in the No. 41 (R) Squadron at the military airfield RAF Coningsby and was there on June 20, 1932. Lieutenant ( Flying Officer transported). This was followed from October 1, 1932 to February 11, 1934 as a personal adjutant to the Commander of the Air Force in the Middle East ( RAF Middle East ), before he attended the Air Armament School on January 19 1935 armaments officer at No. 5 Flying Training School RAF became.

In this role Eeles was on April 1, 1936 Captain ( Flight Lieutenant transported) and then served between 1 September 1937 to June 1940 as a personal aide of Air Chief Marshal Cyril Newall , Chief of Air Staff ( Chief of the Air Staff ) . There he was promoted to Major ( Squadron Leader ) on December 1, 1938 . In June 1940 he took his first post commander, as a Commander ( Commanding Officer ) of using fighter aircraft of the type Hawker Hurricane and Westland Whirlwind equipped No. 263 Squadron RAF . During this time he was mentioned in the war report on January 1, 1943 ( Mentioned in dispatches ) because of his military services . Subsequently, on April 20, 1943, he moved to the headquarters of the attack command ( RAF Fighter Command ) as head of the organizational unit and on November 15 as head of the organization unit to the headquarters of the ADGB ( Air Defense of Great Britain ), which belonged to the RAF Fighter Command . He was then on 15 January 1944 Head of the organizational group of the military airport construction unit ( Airfield Construction Branch RAF belonging) No. 85 Group RAF and on June 8, 1944 appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE). Towards the end of the Second World War he was on February 1, 1945 Deputy Chief of Staff SASO ( Senior Air Staff Officer ) at the headquarters of the RAF Fighter Command.

Post-war period and promotion to Air Commodore

After the end of the war, Eeles was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel ( Wing Commander ) on October 1, 1946 and in April 1947 was awarded the Norwegian King Haakon VII Freedom Medal ( Konge Haakon VII's Frihetsmedalje ). He took over on November 1, 1947 a position in the management staff at the School of Land and Air Warfare ( School of Land / Air Warfare ) in Old Sarum , where he worked until April 1951. There he was promoted to Colonel ( Group Captain ) on January 1, 1949 . In April 1951 he took over the position of assistant to the deputy commander in chief for the air force.

On August 25, 1952 Eeles was as successor to Air Vice Marshal Laurence Sinclair Commander ( Air Officer Commanding ) of the Royal Air Force College Cranwell, the officer school of the Royal Air Force, and this function held until his replacement by Air Commodore Thomas Parselle on 16th April 1956. During this time he was promoted to Air Commodore on January 1, 1955 and last took over on June 8, 1956 as head of the administrative planning department in the Air Force Staff. On May 21, 1956 he was appointed Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB). He carried out his duties as head of the administrative planning department until his retirement from active military service on January 29, 1959.

Web links

  • Biography on Air of Authority - A History of RAF Organization

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ London Gazette . No. 33845, HMSO, London, July 12, 1932, p. 4561 ( PDF , accessed February 10, 2016, English).
  2. ↑ London Gazette . No. 34276, HMSO, London, April 21, 1936, p. 2560 ( PDF , accessed February 10, 2016, English).
  3. ↑ London Gazette . No. 34576, HMSO, London, December 2, 1938, p. 7611 ( PDF , accessed February 10, 2016, English).
  4. ↑ London Gazette . No. 37934, HMSO, London, April 18, 1947, p. 1723 ( PDF , accessed February 10, 2016, English).
  5. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 40787, HMSO, London, May 31, 1956, p. 3101 ( PDF , accessed February 10, 2016, English).
personal data
SURNAME Eeles, Henry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British Air Force officer in the United Kingdom
DATE OF BIRTH May 12, 1910
DATE OF DEATH July 1992