Alick Foord-Kelcey

Air Vice Marshal Alick Foord-Kelcey, CBE, AFC (6 April 1913 – 26 October 1973) was a Royal Air Force (RAF) officer who served as Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief at Signals Command in 1961.

Alick Foord-Kelcey
Born(1913-04-06)6 April 1913
Canada
Died26 October 1973(1973-10-26) (aged 60)
AllegianceUnited Kingdom
Service/branchRoyal Air Force
Years of service1934–1964
RankAir Vice Marshal
Commands heldAssistant Chief of the Air Staff (Intelligence) (1961–64)
Signals Command (1961)
No. 11 Group (1959–60)
RAF Stradishall (1951–54)
Battles/warsSecond World War
AwardsCommander of the Order of the British Empire
Air Force Cross

RAF career

Foord-Kelcey was born in Canada, the son of William Foord-Kelcey, a lawyer, and his wife Irene Marion Ethel Payne. His father was killed in the First World War in 1918 and his mother, who was a sculptor, took her sons to England in 1923.[1][2] He was educated at The King's School, Canterbury and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge where he joined the Cambridge University Air Squadron and was then commissioned in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve in 1934 before joining the Royal Air Force as a cadet in 1935.[3] He served in the Second World War on the Air Staff at Headquarters British Forces in Aden and as a pilot and instructor in the Western Desert before joining the Directorate of Plans at the Air Ministry.[3] and later a member of the Joint Planning Staff at the Cabinet War Offices.

After the war he became Station Commander at RAF Stradishall and then Senior Air Staff Officer at Headquarters No. 12 (Fighter) Group before joining the staff on the British Joint Staffs Mission to Washington D. C.[3] He was appointed Assistant Chief of Staff (Operations) at Headquarters Allied Air Forces Central Europe in 1955, Air Officer Commanding No. 11 Group in 1959 and Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief at Signals Command in a temporary basis for three months in 1961 before becoming Assistant Chief of the Air Staff (Intelligence) in 1961 and retiring in 1964.[3]

In retirement he was Deputy Director of the Foreign Office Arms Control and Disarmament Research Unit and then Executive Director of the Federation of World Health Foundations in Geneva.[3]

He was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the New Year Honours List in 1956.[4]

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References
  1. "Irene Foord-Kelscey Sculptor and painter". Archived from the original on 15 July 2011. Retrieved 23 February 2011.
  2. Jim Foord-Kelcey
  3. Air of Authority – A History of RAF Organisation – Air Vice-Marshal A Foord-Kelcey
  4. Service Aviation Flight International, 6 January 1956
Military offices
Preceded by
Sidney Bufton		 Assistant Chief of the Air Staff (Intelligence)
1961–1964		 Succeeded by
Harold Maguire
Preceded by
Sir Leslie Dalton-Morris		 Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief Signals Command
March – June 1961		 Succeeded by
Sir Walter Pretty
Preceded by
Victor Bowling		 Air Officer Commanding No. 11 Group
1959–1960		 Succeeded by
Harold Maguire
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