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R.A.F. COMMAND
IMPORTANT CHANGES
ANNOUNCED
Men of Proved Ability
LONDON, Sunday.
Important chances in the R.A.F.
Command are announced.
Air Vice-Marshal Douglas succeeds
Vice-Chief Marshal Dowling as Vice
Fighter Command and Air Vice-Marshal
A. T., Harris ' becomes Chief of
the Air Staff, in place of Air Vice
Marshal Douglas.
A Further appointments are that Air
Vice-Marshal Boyd Is-to the Deputy
Air Officer of the Middle East, with
the acting rank of Air-Marshal.
Air-Marshal Gassage takes the
place of Acting Air-Marshal Boyd in
command of the balloon barrage. Air
Marshal Gassage's place in the Air
Council is taken by Air Vice-Marshal
H. Babington, who receives the acting
rank of Air-Marshal.
An interesting feature of the new
appointments to the R.A.F. High
Command is that four of the officers
appointed are either graduates of
older British universities or entered
the service straight from school dur-
rang the last war.
All those appointed have held important
commands and have proved
themselves in previous hostilities, but
Vice-Marshal Douglas is a graduate
of Lincoln College, Oxford, and joined
the Royal Artillery in August,
1914, transferring to the Flying Corps
in 1915.
Air-Marshal Gassage, who was at
Rugby, is a graduate of Trinity College,
Cambridge. He is, however, an
old regular soldier. He joined the
Royal Artillery In 1919 and the Fly-
ing Corps In 1015.
Vice-Marshal Harris went into the
First Rhodesia Regiment as a private
in 1914 from school and joined
the Royal Air Force Foreign Corps
In 1915, while Vice-Marshal Babing-
ton went straight from Eton into an
infantry regiment in 1914 and was
later seconded to the R.F.C.
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