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War">Second Boer War</a><br /><a href="/wiki/First_World_War" class="mw-redirect" title="First World War">First World War</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Second_World_War" class="mw-redirect" title="Second World War">Second World War</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em">Awards</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Knight_Grand_Cross_of_the_Order_of_the_Bath" class="mw-redirect" title="Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath">Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Companion_of_the_Order_of_St_Michael_and_St_George" class="mw-redirect" title="Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George">Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Commander_of_the_Royal_Victorian_Order" class="mw-redirect" title="Commander of the Royal Victorian Order">Commander of the Royal Victorian Order</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Distinguished_Service_Order" title="Distinguished Service Order">Distinguished Service Order</a> & <a href="/wiki/Medal_bar" title="Medal bar">Bar</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Mentioned_in_Despatches" class="mw-redirect" title="Mentioned in Despatches">Mentioned in Despatches</a> (7)<br /><a href="/wiki/Officer_of_the_Legion_of_Honour" class="mw-redirect" title="Officer of the Legion of Honour">Officer of the Legion of Honour</a> (France)<br /><a href="/wiki/Croix_de_guerre_1914%E2%80%931918_(France)" title="Croix de guerre 1914–1918 (France)">Croix de guerre</a> (France)<br /><a href="/wiki/Order_of_the_Crown_of_Italy" title="Order of the Crown of Italy">Commander of the Order of the Crown of Italy</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Order_of_Leopold_(Belgium)" title="Order of Leopold (Belgium)">Commander of the Order of Leopold</a> (Belgium)<br /><a href="/wiki/Croix_de_guerre_(Belgium)" title="Croix de guerre (Belgium)">Croix de guerre</a> (Belgium)<br /><a href="/wiki/Order_of_the_White_Eagle_(Russian_Empire)" title="Order of the White Eagle (Russian Empire)">Order of the White Eagle</a> (Russia)<br /><a href="/wiki/Distinguished_Service_Medal_(U.S._Army)" title="Distinguished Service Medal (U.S. Army)">Distinguished Service Medal</a> (United States)</td></tr></tbody></table> <p><a href="/wiki/Marshal_of_the_Royal_Air_Force" title="Marshal of the Royal Air Force">Marshal of the Royal Air Force</a> <b>Sir John Maitland Salmond</b>, <span class="nobold noexcerpt nowraplinks" style="font-size:;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><a href="/wiki/Knight_Grand_Cross_of_the_Order_of_the_Bath" class="mw-redirect" title="Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath">GCB</a></span>, <span style="font-size: 100%;"><a href="/wiki/Companion_of_the_Order_of_St_Michael_and_St_George" class="mw-redirect" title="Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George">CMG</a></span>, <span style="font-size: 100%;"><a href="/wiki/Commander_of_the_Royal_Victorian_Order" class="mw-redirect" title="Commander of the Royal Victorian Order">CVO</a></span>, <span style="font-size: 100%;"><a href="/wiki/Distinguished_Service_Order" title="Distinguished Service Order">DSO</a> & <a href="/wiki/Medal_bar" title="Medal bar">Bar</a></span></span> (17 July 1881 – 16 April 1968) was a British military officer who rose to high rank in the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Flying_Corps" title="Royal Flying Corps">Royal Flying Corps</a> and then the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Air_Force" title="Royal Air Force">Royal Air Force</a>. During the <a href="/wiki/First_World_War" class="mw-redirect" title="First World War">First World War</a> he served as a squadron commander, a wing commander and then as General Officer Commanding the RAF on the <a href="/wiki/Western_Front_(World_War_I)" title="Western Front (World War I)">Western Front</a> towards the end of the war. He went on to be Air Officer Commanding <a href="/wiki/RAF_Iraq_Command" title="RAF Iraq Command">British Forces in Iraq</a> in the early 1920s when he halted a Turkish invasion and sought to put down a <a href="/wiki/Kurdish_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Kurdish people">Kurdish</a> uprising against <a href="/wiki/Faisal_I_of_Iraq" title="Faisal I of Iraq">King Faisal</a>, the British-sponsored ruler of Iraq. He was <a href="/wiki/Chief_of_the_Air_Staff_(United_Kingdom)" title="Chief of the Air Staff (United Kingdom)">Chief of the Air Staff</a> in the early 1930s and bitterly opposed the position taken by British politicians at the <a href="/wiki/World_Disarmament_Conference" class="mw-redirect" title="World Disarmament Conference">World Disarmament Conference</a> in <a href="/wiki/Geneva" title="Geneva">Geneva</a>, which would have led to the UK's complete aerial disarmament. In the event the talks broke down when <a href="/wiki/Adolf_Hitler" title="Adolf Hitler">Adolf Hitler</a> withdrew from the Conference in October 1933. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life">Early life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Salmond&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>John Salmond was born the son of Major General <a href="/wiki/William_Salmond_(British_Army_officer)" title="William Salmond (British Army officer)">Sir William Salmond</a> and Emma Mary Salmond (née Hoyle).<sup id="cite_ref-odnb_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-odnb-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His siblings included a brother, <a href="/wiki/Geoffrey_Salmond" title="Geoffrey Salmond">Geoffrey</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-odnb_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-odnb-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and sister, <a href="/wiki/Gwen_Salmond" title="Gwen Salmond">Gwen</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Whytes_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Whytes-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After first being taught by a series of governesses he then attended Miss Dixon's School in <a href="/wiki/Thurloe_Square" title="Thurloe Square">Thurloe Square</a>, London.<sup id="cite_ref-hoyle_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hoyle-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> At the age of nine Salmond was sent to <a href="/wiki/Aysgarth_School" title="Aysgarth School">Aysgarth Preparatory School</a> in <a href="/wiki/Yorkshire" title="Yorkshire">Yorkshire</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-hoyle_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hoyle-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1894, he went up to <a href="/wiki/Wellington_College,_Berkshire" title="Wellington College, Berkshire">Wellington College</a> and in 1900 he attended the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Military_College,_Sandhurst" title="Royal Military College, Sandhurst">Royal Military College, Sandhurst</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-odnb_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-odnb-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Military_career">Military career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Salmond&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Military career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>After Salmond graduated from Sandhurst with a commission as a <a href="/wiki/Second_lieutenant" title="Second lieutenant">second lieutenant</a> on 8 January 1901,<sup id="cite_ref-air_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-air-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> he was transferred to the <a href="/wiki/King%27s_Own_Royal_Lancaster_Regiment" class="mw-redirect" title="King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment">King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment</a> on 9 March 1901.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He sailed for South Africa to join his unit, which was engaged in the latter part of the <a href="/wiki/Second_Boer_War" title="Second Boer War">Second Boer War</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-air_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-air-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1902 he applied for a secondment to the <a href="/wiki/West_African_Frontier_Force" class="mw-redirect" title="West African Frontier Force">West African Frontier Force</a> but was turned down on the grounds that he was too young: he re-applied the following year and was accepted on 14 November 1903.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was immediately seconded to the <a href="/wiki/Foreign_and_Commonwealth_Office" class="mw-redirect" title="Foreign and Commonwealth Office">colonial service</a><sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and then promoted to <a href="/wiki/Lieutenant_(British_Army_and_Royal_Marines)" title="Lieutenant (British Army and Royal Marines)">lieutenant</a> on 5 April 1904.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Salmond's time in Africa was cut short as he was pronounced medically unfit and returned to England in November 1906.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was promoted to <a href="/wiki/Captain_(British_Army_and_Royal_Marines)" title="Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)">captain</a> on 26 June 1910.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Salmond learned to fly at the <a href="/wiki/Central_Flying_School" title="Central Flying School">Central Flying School</a> in 1912 and was awarded <a href="/wiki/Royal_Aero_Club" title="Royal Aero Club">Royal Aero Club</a> <a href="/wiki/List_of_pilots_awarded_an_Aviator%27s_Certificate_by_the_Royal_Aero_Club_in_1912" title="List of pilots awarded an Aviator's Certificate by the Royal Aero Club in 1912">certificate No. 272</a> on 13 August 1912.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Having been seconded to the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Flying_Corps" title="Royal Flying Corps">Royal Flying Corps</a>, he became a flight commander at the Central Flying School on 12 November 1912<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and then a squadron commander there on 31 May 1913.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In December 1913 he set the solo British altitude record at 13,140 feet.<sup id="cite_ref-prob8_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-prob8-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He became Officer Commanding <a href="/wiki/No._7_Squadron_RAF" title="No. 7 Squadron RAF">No. 7 Squadron</a> flying <a href="/wiki/Sopwith_Tabloid" title="Sopwith Tabloid">Sopwith Tabloids</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Aircraft_Factory_R.E.8" title="Royal Aircraft Factory R.E.8">RE8s</a> from <a href="/wiki/Farnborough_Airport" title="Farnborough Airport">RAF Farnborough</a><sup id="cite_ref-air_5-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-air-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> with the temporary rank of <a href="/wiki/Major_(rank)" title="Major (rank)">major</a> on 1 May 1914.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He continued in that role during the early weeks of the <a href="/wiki/First_World_War" class="mw-redirect" title="First World War">First World War</a> until August 1914, when he became Officer Commanding <a href="/wiki/No._3_Squadron_RAF" title="No. 3 Squadron RAF">No. 3 Squadron</a> on the <a href="/wiki/Western_Front_(World_War_I)" title="Western Front (World War I)">Western Front</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-air_5-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-air-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was <a href="/wiki/Mentioned_in_despatches" class="mw-redirect" title="Mentioned in despatches">mentioned in despatches</a> on 8 October 1914<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and awarded the <a href="/wiki/Distinguished_Service_Order" title="Distinguished Service Order">Distinguished Service Order</a> on 24 March 1915.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Salmond went on to be Officer Commanding the Administrative Wing at RAF Farnborough in April 1915,<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and having been promoted to the substantive rank of major on 8 January 1916,<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> he became Commander of II Brigade RFC in February 1916,<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Commander of V Brigade RFC later that month and of VI Brigade RFC in March 1916.<sup id="cite_ref-air_5-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-air-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was promoted to brevet <a href="/wiki/Lieutenant_colonel" title="Lieutenant colonel">lieutenant colonel</a> on 3 June 1916<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and was appointed a <a href="/wiki/Companion_of_the_Order_of_St_Michael_and_St_George" class="mw-redirect" title="Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George">Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George</a> on 4 June 1917.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Major-General_John_Maitland_Salmond.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/d/df/Major-General_John_Maitland_Salmond.png/220px-Major-General_John_Maitland_Salmond.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="281" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/d/df/Major-General_John_Maitland_Salmond.png/330px-Major-General_John_Maitland_Salmond.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/d/df/Major-General_John_Maitland_Salmond.png/440px-Major-General_John_Maitland_Salmond.png 2x" data-file-width="690" data-file-height="882" /></a><figcaption>Major-General Salmond in 1917.</figcaption></figure> <p>Salmond became Commander of the Training Brigade in July 1916 and then, as General Officer Commanding Training Division from August 1917,<sup id="cite_ref-air_5-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-air-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> he opened many more flying schools, laid down minimum training standards and introduced new modern teaching methods.<sup id="cite_ref-prob8_15-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-prob8-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was appointed Director-General of Military Aeronautics at the <a href="/wiki/War_Office" title="War Office">War Office</a> on 18 October 1917.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Promoted to brevet <a href="/wiki/Colonel" title="Colonel">colonel</a> on 7 December 1917,<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Salmond became General Officer Commanding the Royal Flying Corps in the Field (formation subsequently redesignated Royal Air Force in the Field) on 18 January 1918<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and managed to secure complete air superiority over the German forces.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was appointed a <a href="/wiki/Commander_of_the_Royal_Victorian_Order" class="mw-redirect" title="Commander of the Royal Victorian Order">Commander of the Royal Victorian Order</a> on 13 August 1918.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Salmond was appointed an Officer of the French <a href="/wiki/Legion_of_Honour" title="Legion of Honour">Legion of Honour</a> on 10 October 1918<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and a Commander of the Belgian <a href="/wiki/Order_of_Leopold_(Belgium)" title="Order of Leopold (Belgium)">Order of Leopold</a> on 8 November 1918 and was awarded the Belgian <a href="/wiki/Croix_de_guerre_(Belgium)" title="Croix de guerre (Belgium)">Croix de guerre</a> on the same date.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was also appointed a <a href="/wiki/Knight_Commander_of_the_Order_of_the_Bath" class="mw-redirect" title="Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath">Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath</a> on 1 January 1919<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and awarded the American <a href="/wiki/Distinguished_Service_Medal_(U.S._Army)" title="Distinguished Service Medal (U.S. Army)">Distinguished Service Medal</a> on 15 July 1919<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the French <a href="/wiki/Croix_de_guerre_1914%E2%80%931918_(France)" title="Croix de guerre 1914–1918 (France)">Croix de Guerre</a> on 21 August 1919.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Salmond was awarded a permanent commission in the Royal Air Force as a major-general in August 1919 (shortly afterwards redesignated as an <a href="/wiki/Air_vice_marshal" class="mw-redirect" title="Air vice marshal">air vice marshal</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was made Air Officer Commanding Southern Area in September 1919 and then Air Officer Commanding Inland Area in April 1920.<sup id="cite_ref-air_5-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-air-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In October 1922 he became Air Officer Commanding <a href="/wiki/RAF_Iraq_Command" title="RAF Iraq Command">Iraq Command</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-air_5-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-air-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> in which role, as officer commanding all British forces in <a href="/wiki/Iraq" title="Iraq">Iraq</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-prob9_35-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-prob9-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> he halted a <a href="/wiki/Turkey" title="Turkey">Turkish</a> invasion<sup id="cite_ref-odnb_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-odnb-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and sought to put down a <a href="/wiki/Kurdish_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Kurdish people">Kurdish</a> uprising against <a href="/wiki/Faisal_I_of_Iraq" title="Faisal I of Iraq">King Faisal</a>, the British-sponsored ruler of Iraq.<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Promoted to <a href="/wiki/Air_marshal" title="Air marshal">air marshal</a> on 2 June 1923,<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> he became Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief, <a href="/wiki/Air_Defence_of_Great_Britain" title="Air Defence of Great Britain">Air Defence of Great Britain</a> in January 1925.<sup id="cite_ref-air_5-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-air-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was placed on loan to Australian Government in May 1928, where he made an extensive aerial tour of northern Australia.<sup id="cite_ref-air_5-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-air-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> before being promoted to <a href="/wiki/Air_chief_marshal" title="Air chief marshal">air chief marshal</a><sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and appointed <a href="/wiki/Air_Member_for_Personnel" title="Air Member for Personnel">Air Member for Personnel</a> on 1 January 1929.<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Salmond was appointed <a href="/wiki/Chief_of_the_Air_Staff_(United_Kingdom)" title="Chief of the Air Staff (United Kingdom)">Chief of the Air Staff</a> on 1 January 1930.<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In that role he bitterly opposed the position taken by British politicians at the <a href="/wiki/World_Disarmament_Conference" class="mw-redirect" title="World Disarmament Conference">World Disarmament Conference</a> in <a href="/wiki/Geneva" title="Geneva">Geneva</a> which would have led to the UK's complete aerial disarmament.<sup id="cite_ref-prob10_42-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-prob10-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the event the talks broke down when <a href="/wiki/Adolf_Hitler" title="Adolf Hitler">Hitler</a> withdrew from the Conference in October 1933.<sup id="cite_ref-prob10_42-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-prob10-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Salmond was advanced to <a href="/wiki/Order_of_the_Bath" title="Order of the Bath">Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath</a> in the 1931 <a href="/wiki/Birthday_Honours" title="Birthday Honours">Birthday Honours</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Salmond was promoted to <a href="/wiki/Marshal_of_the_Royal_Air_Force" title="Marshal of the Royal Air Force">Marshal of the Royal Air Force</a> on 1 January 1933<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and he relinquished the post of Chief of the Air Staff on 1 April 1933.<sup id="cite_ref-lg_45-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-lg-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Salmond was succeeded by his older brother, Air Chief Marshal <a href="/wiki/William_Geoffrey_Salmond" class="mw-redirect" title="William Geoffrey Salmond">Sir Geoffrey Salmond</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-lg_45-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-lg-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, only 27 days later, Geoffrey Salmond died and John Salmond was temporarily re-appointed as Chief of the Air Staff.<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He stood down for the second and final time on 22 May 1933.<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Later_years">Later years</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Salmond&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Later years"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Johnsalmond.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3b/Johnsalmond.jpg/100px-Johnsalmond.jpg" decoding="async" width="100" height="237" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3b/Johnsalmond.jpg/150px-Johnsalmond.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3b/Johnsalmond.jpg 2x" data-file-width="175" data-file-height="415" /></a><figcaption>MRAF Sir John Salmond</figcaption></figure> <p>Salmond attended the funeral of <a href="/wiki/George_V" title="George V">King George V</a> in January 1936.<sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> During the <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">Second World War</a>, Salmond was Director of Armament Production at the <a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Aircraft_Production" class="mw-redirect" title="Ministry of Aircraft Production">Ministry of Aircraft Production</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-air_5-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-air-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the autumn of 1940, he chaired a committee of enquiry into Britain's night air defences; his report was one factor in the removal of <a href="/wiki/Hugh_Dowding" title="Hugh Dowding">Hugh Dowding</a> from <a href="/wiki/Fighter_Command" class="mw-redirect" title="Fighter Command">Fighter Command</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Salmond resigned his post as Director of Armament Production in 1941 after clashing with <a href="/wiki/Max_Aitken,_1st_Baron_Beaverbrook" title="Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook">Lord Beaverbrook</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Minister_of_Aircraft_Production" title="Minister of Aircraft Production">Minister of Aircraft Production</a> immediately acted the post of Director-General of Flying Control and Air Sea Rescue.<sup id="cite_ref-air_5-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-air-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Ill health forced Salmond to retire in 1943;<sup id="cite_ref-air_5-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-air-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> however he remained President of the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Air_Force_Club" title="Royal Air Force Club">Royal Air Force Club</a> for 23 years and regularly appeared at major RAF events.<sup id="cite_ref-odnb_1-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-odnb-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He became Honorary Air Commodore of No. 3618 (County of Sussex) Fighter Control Unit of the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Auxiliary_Air_Force" title="Royal Auxiliary Air Force">Royal Auxiliary Air Force</a> on 5 January 1950<sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and attended the <a href="/wiki/Coronation" title="Coronation">coronation</a> of <a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_II" title="Elizabeth II">Queen Elizabeth II</a> in June 1953.<sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He died at <a href="/wiki/Eastbourne" title="Eastbourne">Eastbourne</a> in <a href="/wiki/Sussex" title="Sussex">Sussex</a> on 16 April 1968.<sup id="cite_ref-odnb_1-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-odnb-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Family">Family</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Salmond&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Family"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1913, Salmond married Helen Amy Joy Lumsden.<sup id="cite_ref-odnb_1-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-odnb-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Less than three years later, in 1916, Helen Salmond died giving birth to their first child.<sup id="cite_ref-odnb_1-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-odnb-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1924, Salmond married for the second time, this time to Hon. Monica Margaret Grenfell; they had a son and a daughter:<sup id="cite_ref-odnb_1-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-odnb-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul><li>Julian John William Salmond who married his distant cousin, Brigid Louise Wright, sister of <a href="/wiki/Susan_Barrantes" title="Susan Barrantes">Susan Barrantes</a> and had four children.<sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Rosemary Laura Salmond who married to <a href="/wiki/Nicholas_Mosley" title="Nicholas Mosley">Nicholas Mosley</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Burke_53-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Burke-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span 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title="The London Gazette">The London Gazette</a></i>. 1 January 1929. p. 71.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+London+Gazette&rft.atitle=No.+33453&rft.pages=71&rft.date=1929-01-01&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thegazette.co.uk%2FLondon%2Fissue%2F33453%2Fpage%2F71&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJohn+Salmond" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-40"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-40">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFGazette33453" class="citation magazine cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/33453/page/72">"No. 33453"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/The_London_Gazette" title="The London Gazette">The London Gazette</a></i>. 1 January 1929. p. 72.</cite><span 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title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+London+Gazette&rft.atitle=No.+33565&rft.pages=8506&rft.date=1929-12-31&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thegazette.co.uk%2FLondon%2Fissue%2F33565%2Fpage%2F8506&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJohn+Salmond" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-prob10-42"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-prob10_42-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-prob10_42-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Probert, p. 10</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-43"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-43">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFGazette33722" class="citation magazine cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/33722/supplement/3626">"No. 33722"</a>. 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Univ of Queensland Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0702217074" title="Special:BookSources/978-0702217074"><bdi>978-0702217074</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Defeat+of+Distance%3A+Qantas%2C+1919%E2%80%931939&rft.pub=Univ+of+Queensland+Press&rft.date=1985&rft.isbn=978-0702217074&rft.aulast=Gunn&rft.aufirst=John&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fdefeatofdistance00gunn&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJohn+Salmond" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMcKinstry2010" class="citation book cs1">McKinstry, Leo (2010). <i>Hurricane: Victor of the Battle of Britain</i>. 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HMSO. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-11-772635-4" title="Special:BookSources/0-11-772635-4"><bdi>0-11-772635-4</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=High+Commanders+of+the+Royal+Air+Force&rft.pub=HMSO&rft.date=1991&rft.isbn=0-11-772635-4&rft.aulast=Probert&rft.aufirst=Henry&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJohn+Salmond" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Salmond&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Further reading"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1235681985">.mw-parser-output .side-box{margin:4px 0;box-sizing:border-box;border:1px solid #aaa;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em;background-color:var(--background-color-interactive-subtle,#f8f9fa);display:flow-root}.mw-parser-output .side-box-abovebelow,.mw-parser-output .side-box-text{padding:0.25em 0.9em}.mw-parser-output .side-box-image{padding:2px 0 2px 0.9em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .side-box-imageright{padding:2px 0.9em 2px 0;text-align:center}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .side-box-flex{display:flex;align-items:center}.mw-parser-output .side-box-text{flex:1;min-width:0}}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .side-box{width:238px}.mw-parser-output .side-box-right{clear:right;float:right;margin-left:1em}.mw-parser-output .side-box-left{margin-right:1em}}</style><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1237033735">@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .sistersitebox{display:none!important}}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .sistersitebox img[src*="Wiktionary-logo-en-v2.svg"]{background-color:white}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .sistersitebox img[src*="Wiktionary-logo-en-v2.svg"]{background-color:white}}</style><div class="side-box side-box-right plainlinks sistersitebox"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style> <div class="side-box-flex"> <div class="side-box-image"><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4a/Commons-logo.svg/30px-Commons-logo.svg.png" decoding="async" width="30" height="40" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4a/Commons-logo.svg/45px-Commons-logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4a/Commons-logo.svg/59px-Commons-logo.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="1376" /></span></span></div> <div class="side-box-text plainlist">Wikimedia Commons has media related to <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:John_Salmond" class="extiw" title="commons:Category:John Salmond">John Salmond</a></span>.</div></div> </div> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFLaffin1964" class="citation book cs1">Laffin, John (1964). <i>Swifter than eagles – A biography of Marshal of the RAF Sir John Salmond</i>. William Blackwood & Sons Ltd. <a href="/wiki/ASIN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ASIN (identifier)">ASIN</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0026PTSSC">B0026PTSSC</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Swifter+than+eagles+%E2%80%93+A+biography+of+Marshal+of+the+RAF+Sir+John+Salmond&rft.pub=William+Blackwood+%26+Sons+Ltd&rft.date=1964&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB0026PTSSC%23id-name%3DASIN&rft.aulast=Laffin&rft.aufirst=John&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJohn+Salmond" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> <table class="wikitable succession-box noprint" style="margin:0.5em auto; font-size:small;clear:both;"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="3" style="border-top: 5px solid #CF9C65;">Military offices </th></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td style="width:30%;" rowspan="1">Preceded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Robert_Brooke-Popham" title="Robert Brooke-Popham">Robert Brooke-Popham</a></div> </td> <td style="width: 40%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"><b> Officer Commanding <a href="/wiki/No._3_Squadron_RAF" title="No. 3 Squadron RAF">No. 3 Squadron</a> </b><br />1914–1915 </td> <td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1">Succeeded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Donald_Swain_Lewis" title="Donald Swain Lewis">Donald Lewis</a></div> </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td style="width:30%;" rowspan="1">Preceded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Edward_Ashmore_(British_Army_officer)" title="Edward Ashmore (British Army officer)">Edward Ashmore</a></div> </td> <td style="width: 40%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"><b> Officer Commanding the Administrative Wing, <a href="/wiki/Royal_Flying_Corps" title="Royal Flying Corps">RFC</a> </b><br />1915 </td> <td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1">Succeeded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Lionel_Charlton" title="Lionel Charlton">Lionel Charlton</a></div> </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td style="width:30%;" rowspan="1">Preceded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Charles_Burke_(British_Army_officer)" title="Charles Burke (British Army officer)">Charles Burke</a></div> </td> <td style="width: 40%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"><b> Officer Commanding <a href="/wiki/2nd_Wing_RFC" class="mw-redirect" title="2nd Wing RFC">2nd Wing</a> </b><br />1915–1916 </td> <td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1">Succeeded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Donald_Swain_Lewis" title="Donald Swain Lewis">Donald Lewis</a></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"><b>Vacant</b><div style="font-size:90%">Title last held by</div><b><a href="/wiki/John_Frederick_Andrews_Higgins" class="mw-redirect" title="John Frederick Andrews Higgins">John Higgins</a> on 15 January 1916 </b> </td> <td style="width: 40%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"><b> Officer Commanding the <a href="/wiki/II_Brigade_RFC" class="mw-redirect" title="II Brigade RFC">II Brigade RFC</a> </b><br />10–16 February 1916 </td> <td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1">Succeeded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Tom_Webb-Bowen" title="Tom Webb-Bowen">Tom Webb-Bowen</a></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"><b>New title</b><br /><div style="font-size:90%">Brigade formed</div> </td> <td style="width: 40%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"><b> Officer Commanding the <a href="/wiki/V_Brigade_RFC" class="mw-redirect" title="V Brigade RFC">V Brigade RFC</a> </b><br />February – March 1916 </td> <td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;"><b>None<br /><small>Absorbed into VI Brigade</small> </b> </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td style="width:30%;" rowspan="1">Preceded by<div style="font-weight: bold">Unknown</div> </td> <td style="width: 40%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"><b> Officer Commanding the <a href="/wiki/VI_Brigade_RFC" class="mw-redirect" title="VI Brigade RFC">VI Brigade RFC</a><br /><small>Command retitled Officer Commanding the Training Brigade in July 1916</small> </b><br />1916–1917 </td> <td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;"><b>Enlarged to Training Division in June 1917 </b> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"><b>New title</b><br /><div style="font-size:90%">Division formed from Training Brigade</div> </td> <td style="width: 40%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"><b> <a href="/wiki/General_Officer_Commanding" class="mw-redirect" title="General Officer Commanding">General Officer Commanding</a> the <a href="/w/index.php?title=Training_Division,_RFC&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Training Division, RFC (page does not exist)">Training Division, RFC</a> </b><br />June – October 1917 </td> <td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1">Succeeded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Charles_Longcroft" title="Charles Longcroft">Charles Longcroft</a></div> </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td style="width:30%;" rowspan="1">Preceded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/David_Henderson_(general)" class="mw-redirect" title="David Henderson (general)">Sir David Henderson</a></div> </td> <td style="width: 40%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"><b> <a href="/wiki/Directorate_of_Military_Aeronautics" title="Directorate of Military Aeronautics">Director-General of Military Aeronautics</a> </b><br />1917–1918 </td> <td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1">Succeeded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Edward_Ellington" title="Edward Ellington">Edward Ellington</a></div> </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td style="width:30%;" rowspan="1">Preceded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Hugh_Trenchard,_1st_Viscount_Trenchard" title="Hugh Trenchard, 1st Viscount Trenchard">Hugh Trenchard</a></div> </td> <td style="width: 40%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"><b> General Officer Commanding the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Flying_Corps" title="Royal Flying Corps">Royal Flying Corps</a> in the Field<br /><small>Post retitled <a href="/wiki/General_Officer_Commanding" class="mw-redirect" title="General Officer Commanding">GOC</a> the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Air_Force" title="Royal Air Force">RAF</a> in the Field on 1 April 1918</small> </b><br />1918–1919 </td> <td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;"><b>Post disestablished </b> </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td style="width:30%;" rowspan="1">Preceded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Amyas_Borton" title="Amyas Borton">Amyas Borton</a><br /><small>As Officer Commanding Iraq Group</small></div> </td> <td style="width: 40%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"><b> Air Officer Commanding <a href="/wiki/RAF_Iraq_Command" title="RAF Iraq Command">Iraq Command</a> </b><br />1922–1924 </td> <td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1">Succeeded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/John_Frederick_Andrews_Higgins" class="mw-redirect" title="John Frederick Andrews Higgins">John Higgins</a></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"><b>New title</b> </td> <td style="width: 40%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"><b> Commander-in-Chief <a href="/wiki/Air_Defence_of_Great_Britain" title="Air Defence of Great Britain">Air Defence of Great Britain</a> </b><br />1925–1928 </td> <td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1">Succeeded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Francis_Rowland_Scarlett" title="Francis Rowland Scarlett">Francis Scarlett</a></div> </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td style="width:30%;" rowspan="1">Preceded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Philip_Game" title="Philip Game">Sir Philip Game</a></div> </td> <td style="width: 40%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"><b> <a href="/wiki/Air_Member_for_Personnel" title="Air Member for Personnel">Air Member for Personnel</a> </b><br />1929–1930 </td> <td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1">Succeeded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Tom_Webb-Bowen" title="Tom Webb-Bowen">Sir Tom Webb-Bowen</a></div> </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td style="width:30%;" rowspan="1">Preceded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Hugh_Trenchard,_1st_Viscount_Trenchard" title="Hugh Trenchard, 1st Viscount Trenchard">Sir Hugh Trenchard</a></div> </td> <td style="width: 40%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"><b> <a href="/wiki/Chief_of_the_Air_Staff_(United_Kingdom)" title="Chief of the Air Staff (United Kingdom)">Chief of the Air Staff</a> </b><br />1930–1933 </td> <td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1">Succeeded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Geoffrey_Salmond" title="Geoffrey Salmond">Sir Geoffrey Salmond</a></div> </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td style="width:30%;" rowspan="1">Preceded by<div style="font-weight: bold">Sir Geoffrey Salmond</div> </td> <td style="width: 40%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"><b> Chief of the Air Staff </b><br />1933 </td> <td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1">Succeeded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Edward_Ellington" title="Edward Ellington">Sir Edward Ellington</a></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="3" style="border-top: 5px solid #bebebe;"><small><b>Notes and references</b></small> </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="3" style="text-align:left;"><small>1. 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