He was born the third eldest son of Herbert Baring Garrod, barrister-at-law and educated at
Bradfield College and
University College, Oxford. Garrod was originally commissioned into
The Leicestershire Regiment of the
British Army in 1914 and only transferred to the
Royal Flying Corps in 1915. His younger brother Roland Perceval Garrod was killed in action the same year. Garrod was given the temporary rank of major in the newly formed Royal Air Force in April 1918. In March 1945 Garrod was appointed
RAF Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean and Middle East. After the war he was made Permanent RAF Representative on the Military Staff Committee of the United Nations and then Head of the RAF delegation to
Washington D. C. from 1946 until he retired in 1948. ==Family==