Leslie Mavor
Leslie Deane Mavor | |
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| Born | 18 January 1916 Deputy Lieutenant of North Yorkshire |
DL (18 January 1916 – 2 October 1991) was a senior Royal Air Force
officer.
RAF career
Educated in
Burma.[1] In 1959 he became Station Commander at RAF Lindholme and in 1961 he became Director of Air Staff Briefing at the Air Ministry.[1] In 1964 attended the Imperial Defence College and on graduation he became Air Officer Commanding No 38 Group.[1] In 1966 he was moved to Assistant Chief of the Air Staff (Policy).[1] On promotion to air marshal in 1969 he was appointed Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief Training Command and he retired on 18 January 1973.[1]
Mavor was appointed
Principal of the Home Office Home Defence College.[1] Retiring as Principal in 1980 he continued in the new post of Co-ordinator of Voluntary Effort in Civil Defence until 1984.[1] His appointment reflected a review of Civil preparedness for home defence carried out by the new Conservative Government in 1979 shortly after it was elected.[2]
Mavor was made a Companion of the
Officer of the Order of St John on 30 January 1966, and knighted as a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath on 1 January 1970.[1]
He was a Fellow of the
Deputy Lieutenant of North Yorkshire on 24 May 1976.[1]