- No. 7 Group RAF
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No. 7 Group Active 1918-19, 1919-26, 1940-1942, 1944-1945 Country 
United KingdomBranch Royal Air Force Part of No 2 Area, South-Western Area, Inland Area, Bomber Command Number 7 Group of the Royal Air Force was an RAF group active in the latter part of World War I, during the 1920s and also in World War II.
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Organizational history
No. 7 Group was created on the day that the RAF officially came into being. On 1 April 1918 it was created by renaming the Royal Flying Corps' Southern Training Brigade. Initially the Group was subordinate to No. 2 Area and on 8 August the designation "Training" was added making the Group's title Number 7 (Training) Group. With the post war reductions, the Group was disbanded on 16 Aug 1919.
The following month on 20 September 1919, No. 7 Group was reformed when South-Western Area was downgraded to group status. On 1 April 1920, the Group was transferred to Inland Area's control. The Group was disbanded for the second time on 12 April 1926.
Following the outbreak of World War II, the Group was reformed on 15 July 1940 as No. 7 (Operational Training) Group under Bomber Command control. It was disestablished by its renaming to No. 92 Group on 11 May 1942. The Group's final incaration was from 1 November 1944 to 21 December 1945. Its function was the control of heavy conversion units.
Commanders
April 1918 to August 1919
- Unknown
- 1 July 1919 Group Captain T C R Higgins
September 1919 to April 1926
- 20 September 1919 Group Captain (later Air Commodore) T C R Higgins
- 1 September 1922 Air Commodore L E O Charlton
- 1 January 1923 Air Commodore E A D Masterman
- 26 November 1924 Air Commodore A M Longmore
- 1 April 1925 Air Commodore D Le G Pitcher
July 1940 to May 1942
- 15 July 1940 Air Commodore The Hon R A Cochrane
- 2 November 1940 Air Commodore L H Cockey
November 1944 to December 1945
- 1 November 1944 Air Vice-Marshal G S Hodson
- 23 February 1945 Air Vice-Marshal E A B Rice
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Categories:- Royal Air Force groups
- Military units and formations established in 1918
- 1918 establishments in the United Kingdom
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