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Air Vice-Marshal A A Case (37035)


Albert Avion CaseAlbert Avion                 b: 5 Apr 1916                     r: 11 Jan 1969                      d: xx Nov 1990

CB – 13 Jun 1964, CBE – 13 Jun 1957 (OBE - 2 Jun 1943).

Act Plt Off (P): 19 Oct 1934, Plt Off: 19 Oct 1935, Fg Off: 19 Apr 1937, Act Flt Lt: 2 Mar 1939, Flt Lt: 19 Apr 1939, (T) Sqn Ldr: 1 Sep 1940, (T) Wg Cdr: 1 Mar 1942, Sqn Ldr: 14 Apr 1942 [1 Sep 1940], Act Gp Capt: xx xxx 1945?, Wg Cdr: 1 Jul 1947, Gp Capt: 1 Jul 1953, A/Cdre: 1 Jan 1959, AVM: 1 Jan 1962.

Albert Avion Case

by Walter Bird
bromide print, 28 March 1963
NPG x45657

© National Portrait Gallery, London

 

 3 Nov 1934:            U/T Pilot, No 2 FTS.

27 Apr 1936:            Attended Flying Boat Pilots' Course, RAF Base Calshot.

 1 Aug 1936:            Pilot, No 202 Sqn. (Fairey IIIF, Scapa) (arrived 11 Aug 1936)

22 May 1939:          Posted to Home Establishment

19 Oct 1940:            Granted Permanent Commission in the rank of Flight Lieutenant.

xx Feb 1942:            Officer Commanding, No 202 Sqn. (Sunderland, Catalina)

xx Jan 1943:

17 May 1943:           Air Staff, HQ Coastal Command

21Mar 1944:            Air Staff, HQ No 222 Group.

 8 Mar 1945:            Group Captain - Maritime Operations, HQ ACSEA.

xx Aug 1945:            Officer Commanding, RAF Koggala.

1946 - 50                 ?

xx xxx 1950:            Attended Joint Services Staff College.

1951 - 52                 ?

xx xxx 1953:            Officer Commanding, RAF Chivenor.

31 Jan 1956:            Air Staff (Air Plans), HQ Middle East Air Force/OC, RAF Nicosia?

xx Jan 1959:            Attended Imperial Defence College.

21 Sep 1959:           Director of Operational Requirements (A).

1961 - 62                ?

12 Nov 1962:          AOC, No 22 (Training) Group.

25 Feb 1966:           SASO, HQ Coastal Command.

His father retired from the RAF as a Group Captain.  In 1946 he won a Swimming Blue for the RAF.  From 1969 to 1982, he was General Secretary of the Hospital Saving Association.

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