The following people served as Inspector-General of the RAF: • 22 August 1918
Major General Sir
Godfrey Paine (
Air Vice-Marshal from 1 August 1919) •
1920 to 1935 - Post Abolished • 1 August 1935
Air Chief Marshal Sir
Robert Brooke-Popham • 1 September 1937
Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir
Edward Ellington • 1 July 1939 Air Chief Marshal Sir
Charles Burnett • 15 January 1940 Air Marshal Sir
Leslie Gossage • 14 April 1940 Air Chief Marshal Sir
Edgar Ludlow-Hewitt From May 1940 to November 1943, a second inspector-general was appointed in addition to Ludlow-Hewitt who continued to serve. The additional inspectors-general were • 24 May 1940 Air Marshal Sir
William Mitchell • 1 June 1941 Air Chief Marshal Sir
Arthur Longmore • 1943 Air Chief Marshal Sir
Philip Joubert de la Ferté After November 1943, Ludlow-Hewitt remained as the only inspector-general until he handed over to Sir Arthur Barratt in October 1945. • 29 October 1945 Air Chief Marshal Sir
Arthur Barratt • 17 January 1947 Air Chief Marshal Sir
Norman Bottomley • 1 January 1948 Air Chief Marshal Sir
George Pirie • 1 September 1948 Air Chief Marshal Sir
Leslie Hollinghurst • 30 September 1949 Air Chief Marshal Sir
Hugh Saunders • 9 February 1951 Air Chief Marshal Sir
James Robb • 1 October 1951 Air Marshal Sir
Thomas Williams • 1 October 1952 Air Marshal Sir
Stephen Strafford • 19 April 1954 Air Marshal Sir
Charles Guest • 31 July 1956 Air Chief Marshal Sir
Walter Dawson • 1 January 1958 Air Marshal Sir
Gilbert Nicholetts • 3 June 1959 Air Marshal Sir
John Whitley • 1 June 1962 Air Marshal Sir
Paterson Fraser • 15 August 1964 Air Chief Marshal Sir
Augustus Walker • 17 February 1967 Air Marshal Sir
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