Hugh Pughe Lloyd

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Air Vice Marshal Hugh Lloyd

Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Lloyd Pughe GBE , KCB , MC , DFC , RAF (* 12. December 1894 in Leigh , Worcestershire , † 14. July 1981 ) was an officer in the Air Force of the United Kingdom .

Life

Lloyd came in 1915 during the First World War the Royal Engineers as a pioneer in. He was wounded three times in combat before he was accepted as an officer candidate for the Royal Flying Corps in 1917 and was named No. 52 Squadron was assigned.

After the war he remained with the Royal Air Force (which emerged from the RFC in 1918) in ongoing officer service. During World War II he was made Group Captain and was given command of RAF Marham . In May 1940 he became Senior Air Staff Officer of No. 2 group.

In June 1941 he was appointed air officer in command in Malta , with the difficult task of defending the island against German and Italian air raids on the one hand and interrupting the shipping of the Axis powers , which supplied General Rommel's Africa Corps , on the other . Due to the clear inferiority to the German Messerschmitts and the subsequent Second Great Siege of Malta , the High Command of the RAF reacted and relocated two squadrons of Supermarine Spitfires to Malta and began an offensive in late 1942.

In 1942 Lloyd was posted to the Middle East as Senior Air Staff Officer and in early 1943 became Commander of the Northwest African Coastal Air Force (later renamed Mediterranean Allied Coastal Air Forces ).

In 1945 Lloyd was tasked with setting up the Very Long Range Bombing Force (also known as the Tiger Force ) - a heavy bomber formation that was originally intended to be used for the air offensive against Japan . After the atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the war that followed, it was no longer used.

After two years as chief instructor at Imperial Defense College , he was appointed Air Officer Commanding Far East. In February 1950 he became Commander in Chief of the RAF Bomber Command . He retired in June 1953.

literature

  • Sir Hugh Lloyd: Briefed to Attack: Malta's Part in African Victory. Hodder & Stoughton, 1949. (The film Malta Story was made based on this.)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Air of Authority - A History of RAF Organization - Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Lloyd
  2. ^ Northwest African Coastal Air Force
  3. ^ John Herington: Australia in the War of 1939-1945. Series 3 - Air: Volume IV - Air Power Over Europe, 1944-1945. 1st edition. 1963; "Chapter 18 The Last Battles: The Way Home". (Australian War Memorial), p. 449.
personal data
SURNAME Lloyd, Hugh Pughe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British Air Force officer in the United Kingdom
DATE OF BIRTH December 12, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Leigh , Worcestershire
DATE OF DEATH July 14, 1981