Hugh Walmsley

Air Marshal Sir Hugh Sidney Porter Walmsley KCB KCIE CBE MC DFC (6 June 1898 – 2 September 1985) was a senior commander in the Royal Air Force during and after World War II.

AOC 91 (OTU) Group 1942-4, AOC 4 Group 1945Awarded the MC in 1918, the DFC in 1922, and mentioned in dispatches five times during the Second World War, Hugh Walmsley was born in 1898 and educated at Dover College. During the First World War he was commissioned into the Loyal North Lancashire Regiment before being seconded to the Royal Flying Corps in 1916. Walmsley received a permanent commission in the RAF in 1922 and as a group captain became AOC 91 (OTU) Group in 1942. He took over as AOC 4 Group from AVM John Whitley on 7 May 1945 before moving on to become Air Officer, Transport Command, SE Asia (1945-6) and then AOC Air HQ, India (1946-7). A succession of senior command appointments followed with Deputy Chief of the Air Staff in 1948, and then in 1950 AOC Flying Training Command. Walmsley retired from the RAF in 1952 and became managing director of Air Service Training Ltd and later principal of the College of Air Training until he retired again in 1960. He died at Lymington in August 1985, aged eighty-seven.

References

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

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