Guy Garrod

Infobox Military Person
name= Guy Garrod
lived= 13 April 1891 – 3 January 1965
placeofbirth=
placeofdeath=


caption= Garrod as the Air Member for Training at his desk at Adastral House, London.
nickname=
allegiance=flag|United Kingdom
serviceyears= 1914–1948
rank= Air Chief Marshal
branch= air force|United Kingdom
commands=
unit=
battles= World War I
World War II
awards=Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire
Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath
Military Cross
Distinguished Flying Cross
Mention in Despatches (3)
laterwork= Chairman of Malkay Investments Ltd

Air Chief Marshal Sir Alfred Guy Roland Garrod GBE, KCB, MC, DFC (13 April 1891 – 3 January 1965) was a senior UK Royal Air Force officer. Originally commissioned in The Leicestershire Regiment of the British Army in 1914, he transferred to the Royal Flying Corps in 1915. After various appointments of increasing seniority during the 1920s and 1930s, he served as the Air Member for Training at the Air Council from 1940 to 1943, was Allied Air Commander in South East Asia between 1944 and 1945, and served on the Military Staff Committee of the United Nations from 1945 to 1948.cite web | url = http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/locreg/GARROD.shtml | title = GARROD, Sir Alfred Guy Roland (1891-1965), Air Chief Marshal | publisher = Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives; King's College London | accessdate = June 28 | accessyear = 2006]

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External links

* [http://www.rafweb.org/Biographies/Garrod.htm A History of RAF Organisation - Air Chf Mshl Sir Guy Garrod]

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