Thomas Warne-Browne
Sir Thomas Warne-Browne | |
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Born | 21 June 1898 |
Died | 13 October 1962 | (aged 64)
Allegiance | United Kingdom |
Service/ | Royal Navy (1917–18) Royal Air Force (1918–53) |
Years of service | 1917–53 |
Rank | Air Marshal |
Commands held | Maintenance Command (1949–52) (1946) No. 22 Squadron (1934–35) No. 811 Squadron (1933–34) |
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 Distinguished Service Cross |
Air Marshal Sir Thomas Arthur Warne-Browne, KBE, CB, DSC (21 July 1898 – 13 October 1962) was a senior Royal Air Force officer who served as Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief Maintenance Command from 1949 to 1952.
RAF career[]
Warne-Browne served with the Royal Naval Air Service and Royal Air Force in the First World War being awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for a reconnaissance over Bruges and Blankenberge under heavy anti-aircraft fire in March 1918.[1] He was appointed Officer Commanding No. 22 Squadron in 1934 and a Squadron Commander at No. 1 Flying Training School in 1936.[1] Later that year he became Senior Engineering Officer at RAF Gosport.[1] He also served in the Second World War as Senior Engineer Staff Officer at Headquarters RAF Coastal Command from 1942 until the end of the war.[1] After the War he became Air Officer Commanding and then joined the Senior Technical Staff Officer at RAF Mediterranean and Middle East in 1947 before becoming Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief at RAF Maintenance Command in 1949[2] and retiring in 1953.[3]
He lived at Chilbolton near Stockbridge in Hampshire.[4]
References[]
- ^ a b c d Air of Authority – A History of RAF Organisation – Air Marshal Sir Thomas Warne-Browne
- ^ New A.O.C.-in-C, Maintenance Command Flight International, 20 October 1949
- ^ Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives
- ^ The Peerage.com
- 1898 births
- 1962 deaths
- Royal Air Force air marshals
- Royal Air Force personnel of World War I
- Royal Air Force personnel of World War II
- Knights Commander of the Order of the British Empire
- Companions of the Order of the Bath
- Recipients of the Distinguished Service Cross (United Kingdom)