Air Vice Marshal Air vice-marshal (Air Vce Mshl or AVM) is an air officer rank used by some air forces, with origins from the Royal Air Force. The rank is also used by the air forces of many Commonwealth of Nations, countries which have historical British infl ...

Richard John Bomball, (born 13 October 1937) is a retired

Royal Australian Air Force The Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) is the principal Air force, aerial warfare force of Australia, a part of the Australian Defence Force (ADF) along with the Royal Australian Navy and the Australian Army. Constitutionally the Governor-Gener ...

officer, Assistant Chief of the Air Staff – Development and former

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of the

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Early life

Born on 13 October 1937, in

Richmond, Victoria Richmond is an inner-city suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, east of the Melbourne central business district, located within the City of Yarra Local government areas of Victoria, local government area. Richmond recorded a population of 2 ...

, Bomball was educated at

Mentone Grammar School Mentone Grammar is an independent, Anglican co-educational grammar school in Mentone, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. History Mentone Grammar was founded on 3 March 1923 by a group of Anglicans who had a high profile in the town, su ...

and joined the

on graduation.

Career and later life

Bomball entered the

in 1956. He served in a variety of units and roles, including as the commanding officer of No. 3 Squadron and the Director of Staff at the

RAAF Staff College The Australian Defence College (ADC) comprises three joint education and training organisations operated by the Australian Defence Force in Canberra, Australian Capital Territory: * the War College, * the Australian Defence Force Training Cent ...

. He was promoted to

and appointed as

Assistant Chief of the Air Staff The Assistant Chief of the Air Staff (ACAS) is a senior appointment in the Royal Air Force. The current ACAS is Air Vice-Marshal Suraya Marshall. The post was originally established circa February 1938, but without being made a member of the A ...

in 1988. Following his retirement from the Air Force, Bomball was appointed as the first Chairman of the Board of Newcastle Airport Limited in 1993, when control of the airport was transferred from the Commonwealth to joint control by

Newcastle City Council Newcastle City Council is the local authority for the city of Newcastle upon Tyne in the ceremonial county of Tyne and Wear in North East England. Newcastle has had a council from medieval times, which has been reformed on numerous occasions. ...

and

Port Stephens Council Port Stephens Council (also known simply as Port Stephens) is a Local government areas of New South Wales, local government area in the Hunter Region of New South Wales, Australia. The area is just north of Newcastle, New South Wales, Newcastle ...

. He served until 2004. In 1994 he was appointed to serve on the Veterans' Compensation Review Committee by the Minister for Veterans' Affairs,

John Faulkner John Philip Faulkner (born 12 April 1954) is an Australian former Labor Party politician who was a Senator for New South Wales from 1989 to 2015. He was a Cabinet Minister in the Keating, Rudd and Gillard governments. After his election to ...

, subsequently co-authoring a report on compensation for veterans and war widows.

Honours

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Bomball, Richard 1937 births Living people Graduates of the Royal College of Defence Studies Military personnel from Melbourne Officers of the Order of Australia People educated at Mentone Grammar School Australian recipients of the Air Force Cross (United Kingdom) Royal Australian Air Force air marshals Australian military personnel of the Malayan Emergency Recipients of the Commendation for Valuable Service in the Air