No. 3 Group RAF - Commanders

Commanders

1919 to 1921

  • 30 November 1919 Group Captain U J D Bourke
  • 23 November 1920 Group Captain A M Longmore

1923 to 1926

  • 16 April 1923 Air Commodore T I Webb-Bowen
  • 7 March 1924 Air Commodore L E O Charlton
  • 2 January 1925 Air Commodore R Gordon
  • 1 October 1925 Air Commodore I M Bonham-Carter

1936 to 1967

  • 1 May 1936 Air Vice-Marshal P H L Playfair
  • 14 February 1938 Air Commodore A A B Thomson (killed on duty 8 August 1939)
  • 29 August 1939 Air Vice-Marshal J E A Baldwin
  • 14 September 1942 Air Vice-Marshal The Hon R A Cochrane
  • 27 February 1943 Air Vice-Marshal R Harrison
  • 28 February 1946 Air Vice-Marshal A C Collier
  • Post vacant
  • 9 July 1946 Air Vice-Marshal R M Foster
  • 18 March 1947 Air Vice-Marshal L Darvall
  • 14 December 1948 Air Vice-Marshal A Hesketh
  • 15 September 1951 Air Vice-Marshal W A D Brook
  • 1 September 1953 Air Vice-Marshal E C Hudleston
  • 2 February 1956 Air Vice-Marshal K B B Cross
  • 4 May 1959 Air Vice-Marshal M H Dwyer
  • 9 October 1961 Air Vice-Marshal B K Burnett
  • 5 August 1964 Air Vice-Marshal D F Spotswood
  • 26 November 1965 Air Vice-Marshal D G Smallwood

2000 to present

  • 1 April 2000 Rear-Admiral Iain R Henderson (Royal Navy - Fleet Air Arm)
  • 24 July 2001 Rear-Admiral Scott Lidbetter (Royal Navy - Fleet Air Arm)
  • 7 October 2003 Air Vice-Marshal A D White

Read more about this topic:  No. 3 Group RAF