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Air
Marshal Sir John Babington/Tremayne
John
Tremayne b: 20 Jul 1891
r: 18 Feb 1944
d: 20 Mar 1979
KCB - 11 Jun 1942 (CB - 2 Jan 1939), CBE - 4 Jun 1934, DSO – 1 Jan 1915, LoH, C - 19 May 1916, JP (Cornwall) – 1945, DL (Cornwall) - 1945, High Shf (Cornwall) - 1954.
3rd Prize, 'R M
Groves' Competition – 1922, Special Prize, 'R M Groves' Competition - 1922
(RN):
- Mid’n: xx xxx 1908, Sub-Lt:
15 Oct 1911, Flt Sub-Lt: xx xxx
xxxx, Lt: 15 Oct 1913,
Flt Lt: 15 Oct 1913, Flt
Cdr: 1 Jul 1914, Sqn Cdr: 27 May
1915, Act Wg Cdr: xx xxx xxxx.
(RAF):
- (T) Lt Col [Maj]: 1
Apr 1918, Sqn Ldr: 1 Aug 1919 [1 Apr
1918], Wg Cdr: 30 Jun 1922, Gp
Capt: 1 Jan 1930, A/Cdre: 1 Jan
1934, AVM: 1 Jul 1937,
Act AM: 7 Jul 1941, (T) AM: 4 May 1942, AM:
Retained.
xx xxx 1908: Midshipman, Royal Navy.
15 Oct 1911: Officer, Royal Navy.
xx Mar 1913: Flying Officer, RFC (Naval Wing).
6
May 1914: 2
i/c, Isle of Grain Naval Air Station
xx xxx xxxx: Flight Commander, No 1 Sqn RNAS.
xx Jan 1915: Officer Commanding, RNAS Westgate.
1915 Officer Commanding, RNAS Hendon.
xx xxx 1915: Member of Air Defence sub committee (reported on Paris defences)
xx xxx xxxx: Squadron Commander, HP Squadron, Manston
xx
xxx xxxx:
Squadron Commander, No 3 Wing RNAS (Handley Page 0/100 – France)
xx
May 1917: Officer Commanding, RNAS/RAF Manston.
27 Jun 1917: Officer Commanding, No 7 Sqn RNAS, Stonehenge.
1 Aug 1919: Awarded Permanent Commission as a Major
10 Aug 1919: Member, Aeronautical Commission of Control (Germany)
22 Jan 1920: Removed from the Navy Lists on being awarded Permanent Commission in RAF
1
Aug
1921:
Supernumerary, RAF Depot.
29 Aug 1921: Squadron Commander, No 6 FTS.
3 Apr 1922: Supernumerary, RAF Depot.
1 Aug 1922 Air Staff, HQ No 7 Group.
5 May 1924 Attended RAF Staff College.
6
Apr 1925: Air Staff, HQ No 7 Group.
5
May 1924: Attended RAF Staff College.
28
Nov 1925: Personnel Staff, HQ Iraq Command.
9 - 26 Mar 1927: Placed on half pay list, Scale B.
27
Mar 1927: Officer Commanding, RAF Base Gosport.
28
Sep 1928: Staff, SHQ RAF Hinaidi.
8
Jan 1929:
Station Commandant, HQ Iraq Command.
6
Aug 1929: Supernumerary, RAF Depot.
31
Aug 1929: Air Staff, Directorate of Operations and Intelligence.
11
Nov 1929: Air Representative to the League of Nations.
27
Dec 1934: AOC, RAF Halton/Commandant, No 1
SoTT (Apprentices)
10
Jul 1936:
AOC, No 24 Group.
12
Aug 1938:
AOC, RAF Far East.
7
Jul 1941:
AOC in C, Technical Training Command.
xx
xxx 1943:
Head of RAF Mission to Moscow.
Elder
brother of Philip Babington, he was an early experimenter in the use of air to
ground W/T and began flying in 1912, transferring to the Naval Wing of the RFC
the following year. He took part in the
Friedrichshafen raid of 21 Nov 1914 - See
Archives. In
1915 he carried out the first flight of the Handley Page 0/100.
He changed his name to Tremayne, his mother's maiden name, in 1945 to
avoid confusion with his younger brother.
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