RAF Home Command was the 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...

 command

Command (military formation)

A command in military terminology is an organisational unit that the individual in Military command has responsibility for. A Commander will normally be specifically appointed into the role in order to provide a legal framework for the authority bestowed...

 which was responsible for the maintenance and training of reserve organisations from formation on 1 February 1939 as RAF Reserve Command with interruptions until it ceased to exist on 1 April 1959.

History

The Command was formed as RAF Reserve Command on 1 February 1939. It was absorbed into RAF Flying Training Command

RAF Flying Training Command

Flying Training Command was an organization within the Royal Air Force which controlled units responsible for delivering flying training. The command's headquarters were at Shinfield Park, Reading in Berkshire.-History:...

 on 27 May 1940 but reformed again on 1 May 1946. It was then renamed RAF Home Command on 1 August 1950 and absorbed into RAF Flying Training Command again on 1 April 1959.

Air Officers Commanding-in-Chief

Air Officers Commanding-in-Chief included:

RAF Reserve Command

• 1 February 1939 Air Marshal Sir Christopher Courtney
  Christopher Courtney
  Air Chief Marshal Sir Christopher Lloyd Courtney, GBE, KCB, DSO was a senior British Royal Air Force officer.-RAF career:Courtney joined the Royal Navy in May 1905 as a midshipman at Britannia Naval College...
  
  
• 28 August 1939 Air Chief Marshal Sir John Steel
  John Miles Steel
  Air Chief Marshal Sir John Miles Steel GCB, KBE, CMG, RAF was a senior Royal Air Force commander.-Military career:...
  
  
• 22 April 1940 Air Vice Marshal Sir William Welsh

Note: The Command was not in existence from May 1940 to May 1946

• 1 May 1946 Air Commodore E D H Davies
  Edward Davies (RAF officer)
  Air Commodore Edward Dayrell Handley Davies CBE was a senior Royal Air Force officer who became Acting Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief RAF Reserve Command.-RAF career:...
  
   (Temporary)
• 20 May 1946 Air Marshal Sir Alan Lees
  Alan Lees
  Air Marshal Sir Alan Lees KCB CBE DSO AFC was an Royal Air Force officer who became Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief RAF Reserve Command.-RAF career:...
  
  
• 1 October 1949 Air Marshal Sir Robert Foster
  Robert Foster (RAF officer)
  Air Chief Marshal Sir Robert Mordaunt Foster KCB, CBE, DFC, DL, RAF was a Royal Flying Corps pilot in World War I and a senior commander in the Royal Air Force during World War II and the immediate post-war years....
  
  

RAF Home Command

• 1 August 1950 Air Marshal Sir Robert Foster
  Robert Foster (RAF officer)
  Air Chief Marshal Sir Robert Mordaunt Foster KCB, CBE, DFC, DL, RAF was a Royal Flying Corps pilot in World War I and a senior commander in the Royal Air Force during World War II and the immediate post-war years....
  
  
• 31 Mar 1952 Air Marshal Sir Ronald Ivelaw-Chapman
  Ronald Ivelaw-Chapman
  Air Chief Marshal Sir Ronald Ivelaw-Chapman GCB, KBE, DFC, AFC, RAF was a senior commander in the Royal Air Force in the middle of the 20th century and the penultimate RAF commander-in-chief of the Indian Air Force....
  
  
• 1 October 1952 Air Marshal Sir Harold Lydford
  Harold Lydford
  Air Marshal Sir Harold Thomas Lydford KBE, CB, AFC was a World War I pilot in the Royal Flying Corps and senior commander in the Royal Air Force during World War II and the post-war decade.-RAF career:...
  
  
• March 1956 Air Marshal Sir Douglas Macfadyen
  Douglas Macfadyen
  Air Marshal Sir Douglas Macfadyen KCB CBE was a Royal Air Force officer who became Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief at RAF Home Command.-RAF career:...