Air of Authority - A History of RAF Organisation
Duncan Frank (Hyland)
b:
28 Nov 1918
r: 13 Dec 1969
d: 21 Dec 1987
CBE
– 10 Jun 1967, MVO – 13 Jun 1959, DFC – 6 Nov 1945, AFC
– 10 Jun 1954.
Plt
Off (P)?:
7 May 1938, Plt Off: 7 Mar 1939,
Fg Off (WS): 3 Sep 1940, Flt Lt
(WS): 3 Sep 1941, Act Sqn Ldr: xx
xxx xxxx, Act Wg Cdr: 27 Mar 1943?,
(T) Sqn Ldr: 1 Jan 1944, Sqn Ldr
(WS): 27 Jun 1944, Flt Lt:
16 Apr 1946 [1 Sep 1945], Sqn Ldr: 1
Aug 1947, Wg Cdr: 1 Jul 1953,
Gp Capt: 1 Jul 1959, A/Cdre: 1 Jul
1964.
xx May 1938: U/T Pilot, No ? Flying Training School
14 Jan 1939: Attended Instructors' Course, Central Flying School
27 Mar 1939: Pilot/Instructor,
No 614 (County of Glamorgan) Sqn.
10 Nov 1939: Instructor, No 11 SFTS, RAF Shawbury
28 Oct 1940: Flying Instructor, No 2 Service Flying Training School, (Vereeniging - South Africa)
30 Oct 1940: Flying Instructor, No 22 Air School (Vereeniging - South Africa)
27 Nov - xx Dec 1940: Attached to Salisbury from No 22 Air School
xx xxx 1941: Flying Instructor, No 21 Air School, South Africa
7
Mar 1942: Transferred
to RAFO and called up for service
27
Mar 1945: Officer Commanding,
No 102 Sqn.
xx xxx 1945:
Officer Commanding
16
Apr 1946 : Appointed
to Permanent Commission in the rank of Flight Lieutenant (retaining rank
current at the time).
4 Jun 1946: Air Staff, H!, No 46 Group
17 Jun 1949: Air Staff, Directorate of Flying Training
xx xxx xxxx: ?
10
Sep 1956: Officer Commanding,
The Queen's Flight.
31
Dec 1958:
26 Nov 1959: Senior Personnel Staff Officer, HQ Middle East Air Force.
24
Sep 1962: Officer
Commanding, RAF Leeming.
17
Mar 1963: Director of Admin
Plans.
10
Apr 1967: AOA, HQ Far East
Air Force.
Joined the RAF/AuxAF? as D F H Smith.
In late 1939 he was a member of No 614 Squadron and whilst flying Hind
L7238, suffered an engine failure. Managing
to make an emergency landing, his aircraft turned over on it's nose but he
fortunately escaped serious injury.
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