Air of Authority - A History of RAF Organisation

RAF Middle East - January 1939

Directly Administered by Command HQ*

 

Unit	Location	Officer Commanding
RAF Depot, Middle East	RAF Aboukir	Gp Capt A L Gregory
Meteorological Station	RAF Depot, Middle East
Port Detachment	RAF Depot, Middle East
No 4 Flying Training School	RAF Abu Sueir	Gp Capt G S M Insall VC
RAF Station Heliopolis	Heliopolis, Egypt	Gp Capt R Collishaw
No 113 (Bomber) Sqn	RAF Heliopolis	Sqn Ldr F G Cator
No 208 Sqn	RAF Heliopolis	Sqn Ldr W A D Brook
No 216 (Bomber Transport) Sqn	RAF Heliopolis	Wg Cdr G C Gardiner
Meteorological Station	RAF Heliopolis
Communications Flt	RAF Heliopolis
RAF Station Helwan	Helwan, Egypt	Wg Cdr W R Cox
No 45 (Bomber) Sqn	RAF Helwan	Sqn Ldr N V Morton
No 211 (Bomber) Sqn (1 Flt) †	RAF Helwan	Sqn Ldr S H Ware
RAF Station Ismailia	Ismailia, Egypt	Wg Cdr W E G Mann
No 33 (Fighter) Sqn	RAF Ismailia	Sqn Ldr H D McGregor
No 80 (Fighter) Sqn	RAF Ismailia	Sqn Ldr Paul S Blockey
Inter Command Wireless Station	RAF Ismailia
Meteorological Station	RAF Ismailia
No 47 (Bomber) Sqn	RAF Khartoum	Sqn Ldr G R C Spencer
RAF Station Nairobi	Nairobi, Kenya	Wg Cdr G S Shaw
No 223 (Bomber) Sqn	RAF Nairobi	Flt Lt D P Frost

*The AOC is also responsible for the administration and training of RAF units under the operational command of the GOC, British Forces in Palestine and Trans-Jordan.

British Forces in Palestine and Trans-Jordan*

RAF in Palestine and Trans-Jordan

 

Unit	Location	Officer Commanding
RAF Station Amman	Amman, Trans-Jordan	A/Cdre D Harries
No 14 (Bomber) Sqn	RAF Amman	Sqn Ldr A D Selway
Meteorological Station	RAF Amman
RAF Station Ramleh	Ramleh, Palestine	Wg Cdr A H Flower
No 6 (Bomber) Sqn	RAF Ramleh	Sqn Ldr N C Singer
No 211 (Bomber) Sqn (HQ and 2 Flts) †	RAF Ramleh	Sqn Ldr S H Ware
No 2 Armoured Car Company (less 1 section)	RAF Ramleh	Sqn Ldr C H Stilwell
Meteorological Station	RAF Ramleh
No 2 Armoured Car Company (1 section)	RAF Ma'an
RAF Detachment	RAF Ma'an
Combined Supply Depot	RAF Sarafand	Sqn Ldr F D D Gaussen
RAF General Hospital	RAF Sarafand

Trans-Jordan Frontier Force#

 

Unit	Location
1 x Mechanised Company	Zerka
1 x Cavalry Sqn	Zerka
1 x Mechanised Company	Ma'an
0.5 x Cavalry Sqn	Semakh
0.5 x Cavalry Sqn	Roshpina
0.5 x Cavalry Sqn	Jisr el Mejamie
0.5 x Cavalry Sqn	Beisan

* Responsibility for the defence of the region was temporarily transferred to the War Office on 15 September 1936 when a GOC was appointed.  The AOC is directly responsible to the GOC for the general conduct of operations by all units in the command.  For the administration and training of the RAF units in his command he comes under the AOC, RAF Middle East.

# This force is under the combined GHQ for operations and under the RAF HQ for administration

† The 211 Sqn ORB however, indicates that the unit had moved as a whole to Helwan but was operating detachments to Palestine.

Source - January 1939 Air Force List

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