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u8 FLIGHT. JULY 23. 193.3, THE OYAL SERVICE NOTES AND NEWS ORCE AIR MINISTRY ANNOUNCEMENTS FIGHTER AND HURDLER : P/0. D. O. Finlay of No. 54 (F) Sqn., Hornchurch, has been made captain of the British Athletic team in the Olympic Games at Berlin. He is here seen coaching the Hornchurch hurdlers. FLIGHT CHANGES IN HIGHER COMMANDS The Air Ministry announces the following appointments:— Air Marshal Sir Arthur Murray Longmore, K.C.B., D.S.O., to be Commandant of the Imperial Defence College on Sep tember 1, 1936, vice Major-General R. H. Haining, D.S.O. Air Marshal Philip Bennet Joubert de la Ferte, C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., to be Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Coastal Command, Royal Air Force, on September 1, 1936, vice Air Marshal Sir Arthur Murray Longmore, K.C.B., D.S.O. Air Commodore Arthur William Tedder to be Air Officer Commanding, Royal Air Force, Far East, in October, 1936, vice Air Commodore Sydney William Smith, O.B.E. Air Commodore Roderic Maxwell Hill, M.C., A.F.C., to be Air Officer Commanding, British Forces in Palestine and Transjordan, in August, 1936, vice Air Vice-Marshal Richard Edmund Charles Peirse, D.S.O., A.F.C. Air Vice-Marshal Peirse will, however, continue for the present as Air Officer Commanding, British Forces in Palestine and Transjordan. Air Commodore R. M. Hill will proceed to Palestine in August with a view to assuming command at a later date. Air Marshal Sir Arthur M. Longmore was commissioned as a Sub- Lieutenant in the Royal Navy in 1904, and after obtaining the aviators' certificate cf the Royal Aero Club, No. 72 of April 25, ion, joined the Naval Wing of the Royal Flying Corps as a Squad ron Commander in 1912. During the war he served with the Royal Navy and the Royal Naval Air Service in France from 1914-1916, and after six months reversion to sea service he re-joined the Royal Naval Air Service. For his services during the war he was awarded the D.S.O. and was mentioned in despatches besides having several foreign orders bestowed upon him. He was appointed C.B. in the New Year's Honours List of 1925, and promoted to K.C.B. in the Birthday Honours of 1935. • After the war, he proceeded to Bulgaria as President of the Inter- Allied Aeronautical Commission of Control, and in 1925 he was appointed Director of Equipment at the Air Ministry; he was then posted to Headquarters. Inland Area, as Chief Staff Officer. In 1929 he became Air Officer Commanding, Royal Air Force, Cranwell, and Commandant of the Royal Air Force College. In February, I933i he became Air Officer Commanding, Inland Area, and since October, 1934, he has commanded Coastal Area now renamed Coastal Command. He was promoted to his present rank in January, 1535. Air Marshal Joubcrt dc la Ferte joined the Royal Flying Corps from the Royal Artillery in 1913, having previously obtained the Royal Aero Club's aviators' certificate (No. 280 granted September 3, 1912). During the war he served in France, Egypt and Italy, anil was in command of the Royal Air Force in the latter country. For his war services he received the C.M.G. and D.S.O., and was many times mentioned in despatches. He received the C.B. in the Birthday Honours, 1936. After the war he became an instructor at the Royal Air Force> Staff College and also served as Deputy Director of Personnel and Deputy Director of Manning at the Air Ministry. In September, 1926, he was posted for duty as Royal Air Force instructor at the Imperial Defence College and on relinquishing this post in Decem ber, 1929, was appointed to Command No. 23 Group, Inland Area, subsequently becoming Commandant of the Staff College in Septem ber, 1930. Since January, 3934, he has commanded Fighting Area, now re named No. n (Fighter) Group. He was promoted to the rank of Air Vice-Marshal on January 1, 1933, and to his present rank on July 1, 1936. Air Commodore Tedder was commissioned in the Dorset Regi ment in 1913 and after graduating as a service pilot in 1916 he served with the Royal Flying Corps in F'rance, where for some months he commanded No. 70 Squadron. After some service in England he proceeded in May, 1918, to Egypt, where he commanded the School of Navigation and Bomb-dropping and No. 38 Training Wing. For his services in Egypt he was twice mentioned in despatches and he also received the Italian Silver Medal in 1917 in respect of his war services. In August, 1919, he was appointed to a permanent commission in the Royal Air Force as Squadron Leader, and received his last promotion to Air Commodore in July, 1934. Air Commodore Tedder has completed courses at the R;N. Staff College and the Imperial Defence College. His Royal Air Force appointments include the command of No. 2 Flying Training School from November, 1924, to January, 1927, Air Staff (Training) duties at the Air Ministry during 1928, and an Instructorship at the Royal Air Force Staff College from January, 1929, to January, 1932, when he was appointed to command the Air Armament School. Since April, 1934, he has been Director of Training at the Ait- Ministry. Air Commodore Hill was commissioned in the Royal Fusiliers in 1914, and, in June, 1916, he was appointed to the Royal Flying Corps as a Flying Officer. He served in France during the Great War and for his services he received the M.C. and the A'.F.C, be sides being mentioned in despatches. A bar to the A.F.C. was awarded him in the New Year Honours, 1922. Air Commodore Hill was granted a permanent commission in the Royal Air Force, as a Squadron Leader in August, 1919- In '924. having graduated at the Royal Air F'orce Staff College, he was employed temporarily on Air Staff Duties at Inland Area Head quarters until posted to the command of No. 45 Squadron in Iraq later in that year. In 1926 he was transferred to the Middle East Command for Technical Staff Duties and returned to the United Kingdom in 1927 to take up an appointment as Instructor at the Royal Air Force Staff College. Since 1932 Air Commodore Hill has been employed as Deputy Director of Repair and Maintenance in the Department of the Air Member for Research and Development at the Air Ministry and in 1934 was appointed an Air Aide-de-Camp to His Majesty the King. He was promoted to Wing Commander in 1925, to Group Captain in 1932. and to his present rank on July h 1936. No. 4 FLYTNG TRAINING SCHOOL The undermentioned officer and airman pilots have been awarded special assessments on completion of a course of ab initio flying training at No. 4 Flying Training School, Abu Sueir: — Special Distinction A.P/O. L. Maxwell-Muller, A/Sergts. Dewell, F. W., Hackney, H. B., Cotton, E., Beck, B. Distinguished Pass A/Sergts. Flvnn, C. C, Brown, F. S., Goddard, W. B., Fitchew. E. E., May, D.H.
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