Air Division (Royal Navy)
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The Air Section was created in mid-1920 upon the abolition of the Air Department. In 1928, it was renamed the Naval Air Division.
Creation
Strength
Staff
Directors
- Captain Thomas F. P. Calvert, 7 February, 1924 – 27 September, 1926 (as Director of the Air Section)
- Captain Cecil P. Talbot, 27 September, 1926 – 7 January, 1929
- Captain Isham W. Gibson, 31 December, 1928 – 5 April, 1930 (hereafter, as Director of the Air Division)
- Captain Charles E. Turle, 5 April, 1930 – 5 April, 1932
- Captain Henry C. Rawlings, 5 March, 1932 – 23 July, 1934
- Captain Charles F. Harris, 23 July, 1934[1] – 31 December, 1936 (vice Rawlings)
- Captain Cosmo M. Graham, January, 1937 – February, 1939
- Captain Charles A. A. Larcom, February, 1939 – 21 November, 1939
- Captain Clement Moody, 21 November, 1939 – 9 September, 1941
- Captain Arthur R. M. Bridge, September, 1941 – February, 1943
- Captain John P. Wright, February, 1943 – January, 1945
- Captain Guy Willoughby, January, 1945 – December, 1946
Deputy Directors
- Captain Cosmo M. Graham, July, 1936 – January, 1937
- Captain Reginald Henry Portal, 1 January, 1937 – 18 February, 1938
- Captain Gerald M. B. Langley, February, 1938 – November, 1939
- Captain Robert M. Ellis, November, 1939 – February, 1941
- Captain Edmund W. Anstice, February, 1941 – 1942
- Captain Barrington L. Moore, 1942 – February, 1943
- Captain Arthur D. Torlesse, February, 1943 – July, 1944
- Captain Philip C. L. Yorke, July, 1944 – February, 1946
- Captain Alexander N. C. Bingley, February, 1946
Footnotes
- ↑ Harris Service Record The National Archives. ADM 196/50/347. f. 346.