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Aviation History
1958
1958 - 0060.PDF
62 FLIGHT, 10 January 1958 held. R.A.F. PromotionsA S briefly announced last week, Air Chief1 Marshal Sir Dermot Boyle, the C.A.S., has been promoted to the rank of Marshalof the Royal Air Force. He is the first graduate of Cranwell to achieve this dis-tinction and was also the first to become C.A.S. His promotion coincides with thesecond anniversary of his appointment to that post on January 1, 1956. Two new Air Marshals are named in thelist of half-yearly promotions issued by Air Ministry, which took effect on January 1.They are E. C. Hudleston, C.B., C.B.E. (Acting Air Marshal), Vice-Chief of the AirStaff; and H. A. Constantine, C.B., C.B.E., D.S.O. (Acting Air Marshal), Deputy Chiefof Staff, Plans and Policy, SHAPE. There are also five new air vice-marshalsamong the promotions. Three of them are in the G.D. branch: G. A. Walker, C.B.E.,D.S.O., D.F.C., A.F.C. (Acting A.V-M.), A.O.C. No. 1 Group; W. E. Oulton, C.B.E.,D.S.O., D.F.C. (Acting A.V-M.), S.A.S.O., Coastal Command, from April 1958; andJ. Worrall, D.F.C. (Acting A.V-M.), A.O.A., Flying Training Command. Thefourth promotion to A.V-M. is in the Tech- nical Branch: A. Cdre. D. W. R. Ryley,C.B., C.B.E., Director of Armament Engineering, Air Ministry; and the fifth inthe Medical Branch: J. Hill, C.B.E., M.B., Ch.B., D.P.H., Q.H.P. (Acting A.V-M.). Names of 14 new air commodores (pro-moted from group captain) have also been announced, as follows: —G.D. Branch: C. Broughton, C.B.E.; D. F. MacDonald; J. C. Millar, D.S.O.; C. J. Mount,C.B.E., D.S.O., D.F.C.; L. Fox, D.S.O., Air Chief Marshal Sir Thomas Pike, A.O.C-in-C. Fighter Command (right), presents a portrait of No. 74 Squadron's mascot—Begum the tigress, seen with her trainer—to the CO., S/L. C. Curtis, at Bertram Mills' Circus on December 30, whet, a special "R.A.F. night" was , SERVICE AVIATION Royal Air Forces and Naval Flying News D.F.C.; H. J. Maguire, D.S.O., O.B.E.; R. N.Bateson, D.S.O., D.F.C.; P. G. Wykeham, D.S.O., O.B.E., D.F.C., A.F.C.; K. V. Garside,D.F.C. Technical Branch: J. J. Murphey, O.B.E.,M.I.Mech.E.; R. H. E. Emson, C.B.E., A.F.C. Equipment Branch: R. G. Seymour, C.B.E.Secretarial Branch: G. H. White, O.B.E., A.C.A.Legal Branch: M. W. Palmer, LL.B. R.A.F. Comet Statistics /^OMETS in service with No. 216 Sqn.^-' have now completed 8,500 hr flying— or four million miles (equal to about 160times round the world)—since operations started some 18 months ago, this totalincluding 48 crossings of the Atlantic and 26 of the Pacific. Over fifty million pas-senger-miles have been achieved; and on the weekly service to Christmas Island andback the round trip of 19,000 miles has been carried out in 3 days 18 hours, the fly-ing taking only 45 hr. Air Marshal Beamish Retires A STATION parade and march past was•**• to be held yesterday (January 9) at R.A.F. Brampton, headquarters of Tech-nical Training Command, in honour of Air Marshal Sir George Beamish, the A.O.C-in-C., to mark his retirement from the R.A.F. on that day after completing almost35 years' service. Air Marshal Beamish, who in 1942became the first exclusively R.A.F.-trained officer to reach the rank of air commodore(he won the Sword of Honour at Cranwell in 1924), has had a distinguished Serviceand a notable athletic career. He has been capped 26 times for Ireland at rugby; hewas the first R.A.F. officers' golf champion; and in 1929 he won the R.A.F. heavyweightboxing championship. Commonwealth HonoursS ENIOR officers of the R.N.Z.A.F.,R.A.A.F. and R.R.A.F. are among those members of Commonwealth AirForces who have received honours and awards in the New Year Honours. A.V-M.C. E. Kay, C.B.E., D.F.C., Chief of the Air Staff and A.O.C., R.N.Z.A.F.,becomes C.B.; and A.V-M. H. G. Acton, O.B.E., R.A.A.F., Air Member for Supplyand Equipment on the Australian Air Board, and A. Cdre. E. W. S. Jacklin,O.B.E., A.F.C., Chief of Air Staff and A.O.C., R.R.A.F., both become C.B.E Other Commonwealth honours andawards go to the following officers and N.C.O.s: — Honours O.B.E.Officers: S/L.s D. W. Leckie, A.F.C., R.A.A.F., and E. D. McCabe, R.N.Z.A.F.R.Members: S/L.s S. W. Trewin, R.A.A.F.; F. L. Pearson, R.N.Z.A.F.R.; J. B. Spencer. S/L. R. L Topp, CO. of No. HI Sqn., who in the New Year Honours became only the ninth officer in the R.A.F.'s history to be awarded a second bar to the A.F.C. R.N.Z.A.F.R.; Acting F/L. H. C. Hatherly,R.A.A.F.; W/O. A. S. Clarke, R.A.A.F. Awards A.F.C.: W/C. P. J. McMahon, D.F.C.,R.A.A.F.; S/L.s T. J. T. Meldrum and G. G. Michael, R.A.A.F.; F/L. J. H. Bayliss,R.N.Z.A.F. B.E.M. (Mil): F/Sgt. (Acting W/O.) O. A.Rosayro, Malayan Aux.A.F., Singapore; F/Sgts. W. L. S. Harper and W. A. Hince, R.A.A.F.;F/Sgt. L. Meeking, R.N.Z.A.F.; Sgts. G. I. Progress at the R.A.F. Church of St. Clement Dane's in the Strand, London: left, the restored interior with its royal coat of arms; and below, the newly hung "oranges and lemons" bells. The church was built by Wren in 1682 and burnt out by incendiary bombs in 1941.
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