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Air Vice Marshal Sir Robert George (04018)

Robert Allingham                 b: 27 Jul 1896           r: 26 Jun 1952                        d: 13 Sep 1967

KCMG - 12 Jun 1958, KCVO  - 26 Mar 1954, KBE - 5 Jun 1952 (CBE - 1 Jan 1944), KStJ - 2 Jan 1953, CB - 10 Jun 1948, MC - 26 Mar 1918, GI(s)C - 29 Dec 1942.

For a list of foreign decoration abbreviations, click here

(Army): - (T) 2 Lt:  xx xxx 1914, (T) Lt: xx xxx xxxx, (T) Capt: 14 Jan 1918.

(RAF): - (T) Capt [Lt]:  1 Apr 1918, (G) Capt: 1 May 1919, Fg Off: 1 Aug 1919 [1 Apr 1918], Flt Lt: 1 Jan 1922, Sqn Ldr: 5 Nov 1930, Wg Cdr: 1 Jan 1937, Act A/Cdre: 13 Apr 1939, (T) Gp Capt: 1 Mar 1940, Gp Capt: 14 Apr 1942 [1 Mar 1940], (T) A/Cdre: 1 Dec 1941, Act AVM: 1 Jun 1943, A/Cdre (W): 1 Jun 1944, A/Cdre: 1 Jan 1946, (T) AVM: 1 Jan 1946, A/Cdre: 1 Jan 1946, Act  AVM: 1 Nov 1947?, AVM: 1 Jan 1950.

xx xxx 1914:              Officer?, Seaforth and Gordon Highlanders.

10 Feb 1917:               Flying Officer, RFC.

10 Feb 1917:               Transferred to General List.

14 Jan 1918:                Flight Commander, No ? Sqn RFC.

1919                           ?

 1 Feb 1920:               Flight Commander, No 97 Sqn.

 1 Apr 1920:               Flight Commander, No 60 Sqn.

24 May 1924:             Supernumerary, RAF Depot.

 9 Aug 1924:               Staff, Boy's/No 4 Apprentice's Wing, RAF Cranwell.

 6 Aug 1926:               Personnel Staff, HQ RAF Cranwell.

 2 Apr 1930:               Flight Commander, No 100 Sqn.

 5 Nov 1930:              Officer Commanding, No 100 Sqn.

19 Jan 1931:               Attended RAF Staff College.

18 Jan 1932:               Officer Commanding, No 33 Sqn. (Hart - Bicester).

 7 Jan - 4 Feb 1934:                Placed on half pay list, scale A.

 9 - 15 Feb 1934:                Placed on half pay list, scale A.

16 Feb 1934:              SASO, HQ RAF Far East.

22 Nov 1935:             Air Staff, HQ RAF Far East.

 3 Sep 1937:               Officer Commanding, RAF Hawkinge

13 Apr 1939:              Air Attaché, Ankara (Greece & Turkey).

 3 Dec 1944:               AOC, AHQ Iraq and Persia.

 6 Oct 1945:                Air Attaché/Head of RAF Delegation, Paris.

He retired at his own request and was appointed Governor of South Australia in 1953 until 1960 when he became a Director of The Bank of Australia and Australian Estates Co.  Retired at his own request.  He died in a London hospital after being involved in a road accident.  

For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. He has done valuable work in ranging batteries, bombing at night, and in attacking1 enemy troops with machine-gun fire, often under the most adverse weather conditions.  On one occasion he ranged a siege battery on a hostile battery, destroying four of its gunpits and causing fires and explosions.  His splendid example has been an inspiration to his squadron."

(London Gazette - 23 August 1918)

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