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1946
1946 - 2146.PDF
OCTOBER 24TH, 1946 IN aiiKviU : uc iiavuiaim no,net fighters at R.A.F. Station Wittering. The close cowling of the Rolls-Royce. Merlins may be compared with the circular power plants in the Lincoln bomber below. SERVICE AVIATION mand, and served in the Department ofAir Member for Supply and Organization from May, 1940, until December, 1941.He then commanded R.A.F. Station Wattisham, and went overseas to Ceylonin August, 1942. A.V.-M. Mellersh was commissioned inthe R.N.A.S. in 1916, and later served in the R.A.F. at home and overseas, inIraq and the Middle East. He was born in 1898 at F.sher, Surrey, was educatedat Cheltenham College. Awarded the Air Force Cross in 1919, he has been twicementioned in despatches—in 1943 and 1944—and was made a C.B.E. in the NewYear Honours List, 1945. He is a gradu- ate of the R.A.F. Staff College. owjCarrier on Sh FROM October 14th-! 8th the aircraftcarrier H.M.S. Theseus lay in Glad- stone Dock, Liverpool, and was open topublic inspection. She had aboard some of the latest types of Naval aircraft, in-cluding Sea Vampire and Sea Mosquito. Another uncommon type was a Barra-cuda V, with Rolls-Royce Griffon en- gine. Visitors were enabled to inspectthe hangars where a number of power plants were displayed. Director of W.A.A.F. THE Air Ministry announces that GroupOfficer F. H. Hanbury, M.B.E., has been appointed Director of •-theWomen's Auxiliary Air Force in succes-t sion to Air Chief ConjjnandantWelsh, D.B.E.. who is relinquish-ing the appoint- ment. Air Chief Com-mandant Lady Welsh enrolled inthe A.T.S. in De- cember, 1938, andtransferred to the W.A.A.F. in Sep-tember, 1939, with the rank ofSenior Commas dant (now Squad-ron Officer). After a period in theW.A.A.F. Direc- torate and later asstaff officer of a Balloon Groupshe became the senior W.A.A.F. Group Officer F. H.Hanbury, M.B.E., new Director of, W.A.A.F. officer at Fighter Command Headquartersfrom May, 1940, to January, 1943, when she joined the Staff of the InspectorGeneral of the Royal Air Force as first Inspector of W.A.A.F. She became Director of the W.A.A.F. with the rankof Air Commandant in October, 1943, in succession to Air Chief CommandantDame Katherine Forbes, D.B.E. The overseas work of the W.A.A.F. increasedextensively and as a result she visited both the Middle East and S.E.A.C. ontours of inspection. She was promoted to the rank of Air Chief Commandant inAugust, 1944, an<l was created a D.B.E. in June, 1946. In 1923 she married AirChief Marshal Sir William Welsh. Lady Welsh saw her Service grow tomore than 150,000 and has been its Director while the difficult task of con-traction has. been carried through and the change over to peace conditionsworked out. Lady Welsh served in both the World Wars. In the first she servedas an ambulance and transport driver with F.A.N.Y. Group Officer Hanbury was born May1st, 1913, at Cheadle, Cheshire, and was educated at Eastbourne and in France,at Vaucresson, near Paris. In April, 1939, she joined a R.A.F. Company ofthe A.T.S. and in August became a Com- pany Assistant in the No. 9 County ofLondon unit. She was posted for Code and Cypher duties to Balloon Commandin November, 1939, and later to No. 30 (Balloon) Group. Shortly before the Battle of Britain shebecame senior W.A.A.F. officer at R.A.F. Station Biggin Hill, and remained with LAST OF ITS CLASS : An Avro Lincoln heavy bomber of No. 61 Squadron, Waddington. The Lincoln is the last heavy bom- ber with four piston engines to be ordered for the R.A.F. Dorsal armament is twin 20 mm turretted guns.
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