After the war, Wakeford flew long-range
Liberator and
York transport aircraft with
Transport Command in the Far East. He became a
flying instructor at the
RAF College at
Cranwell. He married Anne Butler in 1948. He joined the
Central Flying School as an examiner, testing other flying instructors, and received the
Air Force Cross in 1953. As a
wing commander, he served in
Malaya in 1955, during the
Malayan Emergency. He was appointed an
Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 1958. He was then commander of the
Queen's Flight from 1959 to 1961, and was appointed a
Member of the Royal Victorian Order (4th Class; later retitled as Lieutenant). He spent two years at the
RAF Staff College, and was then promoted to
group captain. He became commander of the
V bomber base at
RAF Scampton in June 1964, in charge of three squadrons of
Vulcan bombers. He was assistant commandant of the RAF College from 1966 to 1969, during the period when it merged with the
RAF Technical College at
Henlow. He was promoted to
air vice-marshal in February 1969, and became Commander of the Northern Maritime Air Region, and Air Officer Scotland and Northern Ireland (AOSNI), based at
Pitreavie Castle in
Fife, where he was responsible for the squadrons that tracked Russian forces in the
North Atlantic. He was Director of Service Intelligence at the Ministry of Defence, and was the second commander of the short-lived
ANZUK Force, based in
Singapore, from 1973 until it was disbanded in January 1975. His last post was as
Deputy Chief of Defence (Intelligence) at the Ministry of Defence, from 1975 to 1978. He was appointed a
Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath in 1976. ==Later life==