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Sir Paul Holder
Born(1911-09-02)2 September 1911
Died22 April 2001(2001-04-22) (aged 89)
AllegianceUnited Kingdom
Service/branch
Companion of the Order of the Bath
Distinguished Service Order
Distinguished Flying Cross

CB, DSO, DFC (2 September 1911 – 22 April 2001) was a Royal Air Force officer who became Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief at RAF Coastal Command
.

RAF career

Educated at

No. 218 Squadron flying Stirling heavy bombers from RAF Marham in 1942.[1] He became Senior Air Staff Officer with Force 686 at Ankara in Turkey in 1943 and Group Captain – Plans at Headquarters RAF Middle East Command in 1944 where is role was to form and train a Hurricane squadron manned by Yugoslav aircrew loyal to Josip Broz Tito.[1]

After the war he joined Directing Staff at the RAF Staff College, Bracknell and then became Station Commander at RAF Broadwell in 1946.[1] After a tour as Vice-President of the Officer Selection Board, he became Chief Instructor at RAF Officer Cadet Training School in 1948.[1] He was then successively Station Commander at RAF Shallufa and RAF Kabrit in Egypt before becoming Deputy Director of Air Staff Policy at the Air Ministry in 1953.[1] He went on to be Air Officer Commanding AHQ Singapore in February 1957, Air Officer Commanding AHQ Hong Kong in November 1957 and Assistant Chief of the Air Staff (Training) at the Air Ministry in 1960.[1] His last appointments were as Air Officer Commanding No. 25 (Training) Group in 1963 and Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief at RAF Coastal Command in 1965 before retiring in 1968.[1]

In retirement he became a local councillor on

Waverley Borough Council and wrote a paper entitled "The Theory of Interstellar Particles".[2]

Family

In 1940 he married Mary Elizabeth Kidd; they had two sons.[2]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i Air of Authority – A History of RAF Organisation – Air Marshal Sir Paul Holder
  2. ^ a b c Air Marshal Sir Paul Holder Daily Telegraph, 7 May 2001
Military offices
Preceded by Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief Coastal Command
1965–1968 		Succeeded by
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