Educated at
the Oratory School and
Trinity College, Cambridge, Neill Ogilvie-Forbes joined the
Royal Air Force in 1922. He became a flight commander with
No. 13 Squadron in April 1933. He served in the
Second World War on secondment to the
Royal Iraqi Air Force from January 1939, on the Air Staff at Headquarters
No. 15 Group from April 1941 and as deputy director of Operations (Naval Co-operation) from February 1942. After the Second World War, Ogilvie-Forbes served as Air
Attaché in
Brussels from September 1945, as Air Attaché in
Moscow from April 1948 and as
Assistant Chief of the Air Staff (Intelligence) at the Air Ministry from January 1950 prior to retiring of his own volition in July 1952. ==References==