RAF Home Command was the
Royal Air Force
The Royal Air Force (RAF) is the United Kingdom's air and space force. It was formed towards the end of the First World War on 1 April 1918, becoming the first independent air force in the world, by regrouping the Royal Flying Corps (RFC) an ...
command
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that was responsible for the maintenance and training of reserve organisations
[John D. Rawlings, 'The History of the Royal Air Force,' Temple Press Aerospace, Feltham, Middlesex, 1984, p.180] from formation on 1 February 1939 as RAF Reserve Command with interruptions until it ceased to exist on 1 April 1959.
History
The Command was formed as RAF Reserve Command on 1 February 1939.
[Air of Authority - A History of RAF Organisation - RAF Home Commands formed between 1939 - 1957]
It was absorbed into
RAF Flying Training Command
Flying Training Command was an organization of the Royal Air Force; it controlled flight training units. The command's headquarters were at Shinfield Park, Reading in Berkshire.
History
Flying Training Command was formed from the elements of ...
on 27 May 1940 but reformed again on 1 May 1946.
[ It was then renamed RAF Home Command on 1 August 1950 and absorbed into RAF Flying Training Command again on 1 April 1959.][
The command's communications squadron, the Home Command Communication Squadron, was formed on 1 August 1950 at RAF White Waltham and disestablished on 1 April 1959, still at White Waltham, becoming the Flying Training Command Communication Squadron RAF.
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Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief
Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief included:
RAF Reserve Command
*1 February 1939 Air Marshal Sir Christopher Courtney
*28 August 1939 Air Chief Marshal Sir John Steel
*22 April 1940 Air Vice Marshal Sir William Welsh
:''Note: The Command was not in existence from May 1940 to May 1946''
*1 May 1946 Air Commodore E D H Davies (Temporary)
*20 May 1946 Air Marshal Sir Alan Lees
*1 October 1949 Air Marshal Sir Robert Foster
RAF Home Command
*1 August 1950 Air Marshal Sir Robert Foster
*31 Mar 1952 Air Marshal Sir Ronald Ivelaw-Chapman
*1 October 1952 Air Marshal Sir Harold Lydford
*March 1956 Air Marshal Sir Douglas Macfadyen
See also
* List of Royal Air Force commands
This is a list of Royal Air Force commands, both past and present. Although the concept of a command dates back to the foundation of the Royal Air Force, the term command (as the name of a formation) was first used in purely RAF-context in 1936 w ...
References
Maintenance Command
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