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 ...

Roy Faville, (5 August 1908 – 18 June 1980) was a

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(RAF) officer who served as Commandant of the

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from 1956 to 1957.

RAF career

Faville was commissioned into the Royal Air Force on 10 October 1931. After training as an engineering officer on

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es, he served in the

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as officer commanding, No. 42 Squadron before transferring to the air staff at Headquarters

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. After the war he became Officer Commanding No. 140 Wing and Station Commander at RAF Gütersloh in 1946, a member of the air staff on the British Joint Service Mission at Washington, D.C. in 1950 and Station Commander, RAF St Eval in 1954. He went on to be Commandant of the

in 1956 and Air Officer Commanding, No. 22 Group in 1957 before retiring in 1960.

References

, - {{DEFAULTSORT:Faville, Roy 1908 births 1980 deaths Commanders of the Order of the British Empire Royal Air Force air marshals Royal Air Force personnel of World War II