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appointed Director of Volunteer Reserve Expansion at the Air Ministry in August, 1938. Air Comdre. Alfred Guy Roland Garrod, O.B.E., M.C., D.F.C., was seconded to the Royal Flying Corps as a Flying Officer from the Warwick Yeomanry in 1916. During the War he served in France and was awarded the M.C. in 1915 and the D.F.C. in 1919. and in addition was three times mentioned in despatches. In 1919 he was granted a permanent commission in the Royal Air Force with the rank of Squadron Leader and later that year he was appointed to Headquarters, No. 29 Group, as a Staff Officer. In 1921 he completed a course of instruction at the Royal Naval Col lege, Greenwich, and in 1922 was posted to the School of Army Co-operation for flying duties. In 1923 he joined the R.A.F. Staff College for duty as Instructor, and was promoted to Wing Comman der in July, 1925. In 1927 he was appointed to command at North Weald, and in the following year he assumed the duty of Chief Instructor to the Oxford University Air Squadron. In 1931 he pro ceeded to Iraq for Air Staff operational duties and was promoted Group Captain in July, 1932. He received the O.B.E. (Mil.) in 1932- He returned to England in 1933 and in January, 1934, he was appointed Deputy Director of Organisation at the Air Ministry. In April of that year he was appointed Deputy Director of Peace Organisation, which position he held until Jury, 1936, when he was promoted Air Commodore and posted to Headquarters, No. 23 Train ing Group, as temporary Air Officer Commanding. In February, 1937, he was appointed Air Officer Commanding, Armament Group. He relinquished this command in March, 1938, upon his appoint ment to the Air Ministry for temporary duty as Director of Equip ment. _ . He was posted to the Air Ministry as Director of Equipment on March 311 193S. Air Comdre. Roderic Maxwell Hill, M.C., A.F.C., was born in 1894 at Hampstead, London, was commissioned in the Royal Fusi liers in 1914 and, in June, 3916, was appointed to the R.F.C. as a Flying Officer. He was transferred to the R.A.F. in 1918, and in August, 1919, was granted a permanent commission with the rank of Squadron Leader. During the Great War Air Comdre. Hill served both at home and in France and was awarded the M.C. and the A.F.C., as well as being mentioned in despatches. He was awarded a Bar to the A.F.C. in the New Year Honours List, 1922. In,1923 he passed a course at the Royal Air Force Staff College, and in the following years commanded a squadron and was employed on technical air staff duties overseas. On his return to the United Kingdom in 1927 he was appointed an instructor at the Royal Air Force Staff College and, early in 1931, was appointed chief instructor to the Oxford University Air Squadron. He was appointed Aide-de-Camp to the King in 1934, and held this post until July, 1936. Subse quently, he served at the Air Ministry in the department of the Air Member for Supply and Research on engineer staff duties, and in September, 1936, commanded the Royal Air Force in Palestine and Transjordan. He was promoted to Wing Commander in 1925, to Group Captain in 1032, and to his present rank in July, 1936. He was appointed to the Air Ministry as Director of Technical Development in August, 1938. Reunion AIR MARSHAL SIR FREDERICK BOWHILL, K.C.B., C.M.G.. D.S.O., the Commanding Officer, will be present at the reunion dinner of th? R.N.A.S., East Africa, at Pritchard's Restaurant, 79-81, Oxford Street, London, W.i, on Friday, April 21. The dinner will start at 7 p.m. sharp. Full particulars can be obtained from Mr. Stuart Thompson, 155a, Upper Thames Street, London, E.C.4 (Mansion House 3514-5). •*HE Air Ministry announces that the undermentioned promotions JL are made with effect from April 1, 1939: — General Duties Branch Air Commodores to be Air Vice-Marshals.—G. R. M. Reid, D.S.O., M.C.; R. M. Hill, M.C., A.F.C.; A. G. R. Garrod, O.B.E., M.C., D.F.C.; C. W. H. Pulford, O.B.E., A.F.C. Group Captains to be Air Commodores.—R. Collishaw, D.S.O., O.B.E., D.S.C., D.F.C.; H. G. Smart, O.B.E., D.F.C., A.F.C.; H. V. Champion de Crespigny, M.C., D.F.C.; A. J. Capel, D.S.O., D.F.C. Wing Commanders to be Group Captains.—F. O. Soden, D.F.C.; C. E. H. James, M.C.; J. Noakes, A.F.C., M.M.; F. J. Vincent, D.F.C.; A. Durston, A.F.C.; F, G. Stammers, O.B.E.; H. W. Evens; C. S. Richardson, M.B.E.; H E. P. Wigglesworth, D.S.C.; E. J. Cucknev, D.S.C.; H. J. Roach, O.B.E., A.F.C.; D. F. Lucking; E. J. D. To\vnesend; E. B. C. Betts, D.S.C., D.F.C.; W. R. Cox, M.C., A.F.C.; C. R. Keary; G. H. Boyce, A.F.C.; H. W. L. Saunders, M.C., D.F.C., M.M. (Acting Group Captain); L. N. Hol- linghurst, O.B.E., D.F.C. (Acting Group Captain); A. P. M. Sanders; R. P. M. Whitham, O.B.E., M.C. (Acting Group Captain). Squadron Leaders to be Wing Commanders.—E. C. Barlow; A. H. H. MacDonald (Acting Wing Commander); F. Woolley, O.B.E., D.F.C.; W. A. D. Brook; M. Wiblin; J. H. Hargroves; S. J. Smetham; L. G. Nixon; N. H. D'Aeth; T. J. Desmond; R. H. S. Spaight; D. Mac.Fadyen; C. B. R. Pelly, M.C.; A. P. Revington; J. G. Hawtrey; R. Menzies; F. R. D. Swain, A.F.C.; A. G. Thackray; J. N. D. Anderson; G. C. Shepherd; W. Wynter- Morgan, M.C.; I. A. Bertram; M. B. MacKay; F. G. S. Mitchell; L. Young; A. W. Bates; W. J. M. Akerman; B. V. Reynolds; F. H. Woolliams; R. Y. Eccles; R. O. Jones, A.F.C.; R. H. Carter, D.F.C.; A. D. Davies. Flight Lieutenants to be Squadron Leaders.—T. J. MacDermot (from February 1, 1939): G. E. Watt; F. D. Terdrey; D. Michell: S. P. A. Patmore; J. O. Hinks; D. I. Coote; H. R. Allen; H. J. Kirkpatrick; H. P. Jenkins; A. T. Monks; D. R. Evans; A. N. Combe; J. K. Rotherham; D. N. Kingston-Blair-Oliphant; G. A. Walker; C. F. S. Eraser; M. K. D. Porter; F. G. Frow; J. P. Cecil-Wright; C. R. D. L. Lloyd; P. R. Robinson; W. R. Brother hood; C. L. Dann; W. M. Keddie; P. W. Bale; W. G. Bannister; J. G. G. Moore; C. C. Morton; F. C. de la Poer Beresford-Peirse; I. R. A. Peel; R. E. G. Brittain; N. Hope; E. C. Kidd, A.F.M.; W. S. Jenkins; H. G. Lee; K. R. Warton; D. G. Lewis; I. G. Mackay; J. F. Hobler; A. J. Biggar; E. S. Butler; R. H. Young, L. G. Levis; N. D. Crockart; G. H. Foss; R. G. Bowditch; R. H. Shaw; E. B. C. Davies; E. D. M. Nelson; A. H. Fear; E. C. Ingham; J. H. Hill; A. P. Chamberlain; H. M. Russell; C. G. Lott; H. G. L. Allsop; P. E. Hadow; T. Q. Horner; M. H. Rhys; A G. Powell; W. D. Disbrev, A.F.C.; C. Broughton; D. J. P. Lee: V. Acheson; G. N. Hancock; A. C. P. Carver; J. P. Selby; H. Y. Humphreys; D. R. Shore; R. G. Stone; D. Price; G. W. Montagu; T. L. Moselev; R. R. Fairweather; D. Finlay; T. G. Young; J. G. Davis; E. J. Palmer; P. B. Wood; J. H. R. Oldfield; P. H. Holmes; T- N. Tomes; E. A. Howell; B. Ball; J. G. Munro; H. G. Leonard-Williams; P. L. Donkin; S. J. Marchbank; R. J. Gosnell; D. A. Pemberton; M. Hastings; M. D. Thunder; J. A. P. Owen; T. G. L. Gale; T. IT. Rolfe; G. E. MacDonald; W. B Murray: N. C. Jones; H. W. Dean; W. F. Beckwith; B. K. Burnett: G. L. S. Griffith-Tones; R. A. C. Carter; L. Coulson; A. Golding: J. V. C. Badger; E. V. Knowles; P. S, Salter; A. R. G. Bax; C. M. Stewart; D. S. Radford; M. A. Avlmer; M. F. B. Read; W. L Stedman; H. P. Burwood; W. N. Ash; J. R. MncLnchlan; W. D. Woods; J. C. Pope; R. L. Bradford; P. de G. H. Sevmour; C. b.
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