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Appendix 9: Royal Air Force Middle East Subordinate Commands, 1940–1941*

Date of Appointment
ROYAL AIR FORCE IN PALESTINE AND TRANS-JORDAN†
Air Commodore J. H. D’Albiac, D.S.O. 16th August 1939
Air Commodore J. W. B. Grigson, D.S.O., D.F.C. 1st December 1940
BRITISH FORCES IN IRAQ‡
Air Vice-Marshal H. G. Smart, O.B.E., D.F.C. 23rd November 1939
Air Vice-Marshal J. H. D’Albiac, C.B., D.S.O. 17th May 1941
ROYAL AIR FORCE, MEDITERRANEAN
Air Commodore R. Leckie, D.S.O., D.S.C., D.F.C. 17th December 1938
Air Vice-Marshal F. H. M. Maynard, C.B., A.F.C. 26th January 1940
Air Vice-Marshal H. P. Lloyd, C.B.E., M.C., D.F.C. 1st June 1941
BRITISH FORCES IN ADEN
Air Vice-Marshal G. R. M. Reid, C.B., D.S.O. 2nd September 1938
Air Vice-Marshal F. G. D. Hards, C.B.E., D.S.C. 10th September 1941
HEADQUARTERS, BRITISH FORCES IN GREECE
Air Vice-Marshal J. H. D’Albiac, D.S.O. 15th November 1940
AIR HEADQUARTERS, WESTERN DESERT
Air Vice-Marshal A. Coningham, C.B., D.S.O., M.C., D.F.C., A.F.C. 30th July 1941
AIR HEADQUARTERS SUDAN§
Group Captain C. E. V. Porter 1st May 1940
Air Commodore L. H. Slatter, C.B., O.B.E., D.S.C., D.F.C. 17th August 1940
Air Commodore C. B. S. Spackman, D.F.C. 13th July 1941
AIR HEADQUARTERS, EAST AFRICA
Air Commodore W. Sowrey, C.B.E., D.F.C., A.F.C. 19th October 1940

* The Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Middle East, commanded all Royal Air Force Units stationed or operating in Egypt, Sudan, Palestine and Trans-Jordan, East Africa, Aden and Somaliland, Iraq and adjacent territories, Cyprus, Turkey, Balkans, Mediterranean Sea and Persian Gulf.

† Air Headquarters, Royal Air Force, Levant, 1st December 1941.

‡ Air Headquarters, Royal Air Force in Iraq, 1st May 1941.

§ Headquarters No. 203 Group, 17th August 1940.