Leslie Harvey (RAF officer)

Sir Leslie Harvey
Sir Leslie Harvey
Born	11 April 1896
Died	14 October 1972 (aged 76)
Allegiance	United Kingdom
Service/branch	British Army (1917–18); Royal Air Force (1918–56)
Years of service	1917–56
Rank	Air Marshal
Commands held	Maintenance Command (1952–56); No. 24 (Training) Group (1948–49)
Battles/wars	First World War; Second World War
Awards	Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire; Companion of the Order of the Bath; Mentioned in Despatches

Air Marshal Sir Leslie Gordon Harvey, KBE, CB (11 April 1896 – 14 October 1972) was a senior Royal Air Force officer who served as Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief Maintenance Command from 1952 until his retirement in 1956.

RAF career

Harvey joined Royal Warwickshire Regiment in June 1917, transferred to the Royal Flying Corps later that year and then secured a short service in the Royal Air Force in 1919.[1] He was promoted to flight lieutenant in 1924.[2] He served in the Second World War as Assistant Director of Repair and Servicing and then as Chief Engineer Officer at Headquarters No. 45 Group before becoming Deputy Air Officer Administration (Maintenance) at Headquarters Transport Command.[1]

After the War he was appointed Air Officer Commanding, No. 24 (Training) Group in 1948, Senior Air Staff Officer at Headquarters RAF Technical Training Command in 1950 and Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief Maintenance Command in 1952 before he retired in 1956.[1]

In retirement he became a Director of GQ Parachute Company.[3]

gollark: The games I like tend to be small because they rely more on interesting gameplay than increasingly shiny graphics.

gollark: So far I've mostly avoided those, I don't have any bigger than 20GB or so.

gollark: SSDs are neat. My computer boots in 30 seconds and applications load very fast. I'm sure developers will manage to squander the performance gains in a few years.

gollark: Unless it's DDR4-6000. But mostly it doesn't really matter apart from being occasionally confusing.

gollark: The box is lying.

References

Air of Authority – A History of RAF Organisation – Air Marshal Sir Leslie Harvey
Appointments Flight International, 3 January 1924
People and Posts Flight International, 9 November 1972

Military offices
Preceded by Sir Thomas Warne-Browne	Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief Maintenance Command 1952–1956	Succeeded by Sir Richard Jordan

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.

[air-1] Air of Authority – A History of RAF Organisation – Air Marshal Sir Leslie Harvey

[2] Appointments Flight International, 3 January 1924

[3] People and Posts Flight International, 9 November 1972