Air Commodore

Air Commodore

Air commodore is an air-officer rank which originated in and continues to be used by the Royal Air Force...

 Edward Dayrell Handley (Peter) Davies CBE

Order of the British Empire

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 (29 September 1899 - 21 March 1974) was a senior Royal Air Force

Royal Air Force

The Royal Air Force is the aerial warfare service branch of the British Armed Forces. Formed on 1 April 1918, it is the oldest independent air force in the world...

 officer who became Acting Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief RAF Reserve Command.

RAF career

Davies became a Probationary Flight Officer with the Royal Naval Air Service

Royal Naval Air Service

The Royal Naval Air Service or RNAS was the air arm of the Royal Navy until near the end of the First World War, when it merged with the British Army's Royal Flying Corps to form a new service , the Royal Air Force...

 before being commissioned in the seaplane branch of the Royal Air Force in October 1918. He became Officer Commanding

Officer Commanding

The Officer Commanding is the commander of a sub-unit or minor unit , principally used in the United Kingdom and Commonwealth. In other countries, the term Commanding Officer is applied to commanders of minor as well as major units.Normally an Officer Commanding is a company, squadron or battery...

 No.36 Squadron

No. 36 Squadron RAF

No. 36 Squadron of the Royal Flying Corps was formed at Cramlington on February 1, 1916 and was disbanded for the last time in 1975.-First World War:No...

 in 1935 and then joined the Air Staff at Headquarters RAF Training Command

RAF Training Command

Training Command was the RAF's command responsible for flying and ground training from 1936 to 1940 and again from 1968 to 1977.-History:Training Command was formed from Inland Area on 1 May 1936 and absorbed into RAF Support Command on 13 June 1977...

. He transferred to RAF Technical Training Command

RAF Technical Training Command

Technical Training Command was an organization within the Royal Air Force which controlled units responsible for delivering aircraft maintenance training and other non-flying training, initially in Berkshire then in Cambridgeshire.-History:...

 shortly after the start of World War II

World War II

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 and was made Director of Operations (Torpedoes) at the Air Ministry

Air Ministry

The Air Ministry was a department of the British Government with the responsibility of managing the affairs of the Royal Air Force, that existed from 1918 to 1964...

 in 1943. He was briefly Acting Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief at RAF Reserve Command in May 1946 and then became Air Officer Commanding No. 65 Group in 1948 and Air Officer Commanding RAF East Africa in 1949 before retiring on grounds of ill health in 1950.

He was appointed CBE in New Years Honours List 1946.