| He was appointed as a Probationary Flight Sub-Lieutenant (Temp.) RNAS (With seniority dated 28/12/1915). He was appointed as a Flight Sub-Lieutenant RNAS (With seniority dated 28/12/1915). He served in RNAS Redcar 1916. He was appointed as a Flight Lieutenant (Temp.) RNAS 1917. He was appointed as a Flight Commander (Temp.) RNAS (With seniority dated 30/06/1917). He was appointed as an A/Squadron Commander RNAS 1918. He served in RNAS Walmer 1918. (He had 10 victories in World War One including 4 destroyed and 1 captured.) He was awarded the DSC in 1917 "for conspicuous gallantry and skill in leading his patrol against hostile formations. He has himself brought down three hostile machines and forced several others to land. On the 6th April 1917 he drove down a hostile machine which was wrecked while attempting to land in a ploughed field. On the morning of the 11th April 1917 he destroyed a hostile machine, which fell in flames, brought down another in a spinning nose dive with one wing folded up, and forced a third to land.") (Transferred to RAF) 1918. He was appointed as a Captain RAF 1919. He served in H.M.S. Campania (Seaplane Carrier) 1919. He was appointed as a Major RAF 1919. He served in #3 Squadron (In command). He served in #204 Training Squadron (In command) 1919, (Retired from RAF) 1919. (He transferred to RCAF in 1922). He was appointed as a Squadron Leader RCAF 1922. He served as Commanding Officer of RCAF Station Camp Borden 1924-25. He was appointed as a Wing Commander RCAF (With seniority dated 01/04/1924). He served on RAF Staff College 1927. He served as Director of the RCAF 1928-32. He served as Commanding Officer RCAF Station Trenton 1932. He served in the Imperial Defence College 1935. He was appointed as a Group Captain RCAF (With seniority dated 01/02/1936). He served as Deputy Senior Air Officer 1937. He was appointed as an Air Commodore RCAF (With seniority dated 04/08/1938). He was appointed as an Air Vice Marshall RCAF (With seniority dated 29/05/1940). Chief of the Air Staff 1940-43. He was appointed as an Air Marshall RCAF (With seniority dated 19/11/1941). He was appointed as an Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief HQ of RCAF Overseas 1944-45. He was appointed as an Air Chief Marshall RCAF (With seniority dated 25/11/1945). (He retired in 1945.) He was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross "For conspicuous gallantry and skill in leading his patrol against hostile formations. He has himself brought down three hostile machines and forced several others to land. On the 6th April 1917 he drove down a hostile machine which was wrecked while attempting to land in a ploughed field. On the morning of the 11th April 1917 he destroyed a hostile machine which fell in flames, brought down another in a spinning nose dive with one wing folded up, and forced a third to land." |
