• Source: RAF Home Command

      • RAF Home Command was the Royal Air Force command that was responsible for the maintenance and training of reserve organisations from formation on 1 February 1939 as RAF Reserve Command with interruptions until it ceased to exist on 1 April 1959.


      History


      The Command was formed as RAF Reserve Command on 1 February 1939. It was absorbed into RAF Flying Training Command on 27 May 1940 but reformed again on 1 May 1946. It was then renamed RAF Home Command on 1 August 1950 and absorbed into RAF Flying Training Command again on 1 April 1959.
      The command's communications squadron, the Home Command Communication Squadron, was formed on 1 August 1950 at RAF White Waltham and disestablished on 1 April 1959, still at White Waltham, becoming the Flying Training Command Communication Squadron RAF.
      The command operated a number of units:

      Home Command Examining Unit (1950–51 & 1951–59)
      No. 1 Home Command Gliding Centre (1955–59)
      No. 2 Home Command Gliding Centre (1958–59)
      Home Command Gliding Instructors School (1950–55)
      Home Command Instrument Training Flight (1950–52)
      Home Command Major Servicing Unit (1950–54)
      Home Command Modified Officer Cadet Training Unit (1953–56)
      Home Command Training Flight (1950)


      Groups of Home Command




      Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief


      Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief included:
      RAF Reserve Command

      1 February 1939 Air Marshal Sir Christopher Courtney
      28 August 1939 Air Chief Marshal Sir John Steel
      22 April 1940 Air Vice Marshal Sir William Welsh
      Note: The Command was not in existence from May 1940 to May 1946
      1 May 1946 Air Commodore E D H Davies (Temporary)
      20 May 1946 Air Marshal Sir Alan Lees
      1 October 1949 Air Marshal Sir Robert Foster
      RAF Home Command

      1 August 1950 Air Marshal Sir Robert Foster
      31 Mar 1952 Air Marshal Sir Ronald Ivelaw-Chapman
      1 October 1952 Air Marshal Sir Harold Lydford
      March 1956 Air Marshal Sir Douglas Macfadyen


      See also


      List of Royal Air Force commands


      References



      Sturtivant, R.; Hamlin, J. (2007). Royal Air Force flying training and support units since 1912. UK: Air-Britain (Historians). ISBN 978-0851-3036-59.

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