Inspector-General of the RAF

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The first creation of the post began on 22 August 1918 as a member of the Air Council. However, in February or March of the following year, the Inspector-General ceased to sit on the Air Council.

Inspectors-general

The following people served as Inspector-General of the RAF:^[1]

• 22 August 1918
  Air Vice-Marshal
  from 1 August 1919)
• 1920 to 1935 - Post Abolished
• 1 August 1935
  Air Chief Marshal Sir Robert Brooke-Popham
• 1 September 1937 Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir Edward Ellington
• 1 July 1939 Air Chief Marshal Sir Charles Burnett
• 15 January 1940 Air Marshal Sir Leslie Gossage
• 14 April 1940 Air Chief Marshal Sir Edgar Ludlow-Hewitt

From May 1940 to November 1943, a second inspector-general was appointed in addition to Ludlow-Hewitt who continued to serve. The additional inspectors-general were

• 24 May 1940 Air Marshal Sir William Mitchell
• 1 June 1941 Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Longmore
• 1943 Air Chief Marshal Sir Philip Joubert de la Ferté

After November 1943, Ludlow-Hewitt remained as the only inspector-general until he handed over to Sir Arthur Barratt in October 1945.

• 29 October 1945 Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Barratt
• 17 January 1947 Air Chief Marshal Sir Norman Bottomley
• 1 January 1948 Air Chief Marshal Sir George Pirie
• 1 September 1948 Air Chief Marshal Sir
  Leslie Hollinghurst
• 30 September 1949 Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Saunders
• 9 February 1951 Air Chief Marshal Sir James Robb
• 1 October 1951 Air Marshal Sir Thomas Williams
• 1 October 1952 Air Marshal Sir Stephen Strafford
• 19 April 1954 Air Marshal Sir Charles Guest
• 31 July 1956 Air Chief Marshal Sir Walter Dawson
• 1 January 1958 Air Marshal Sir Gilbert Nicholetts
• 3 June 1959 Air Marshal Sir John Whitley
• 1 June 1962 Air Marshal Sir Paterson Fraser
• 15 August 1964 Air Chief Marshal Sir
  Augustus Walker
• 17 February 1967 Air Marshal Sir Reginald Emson

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