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RAF Middle East - January 1939
Directly Administered by Command HQ*
| Unit | Location | Officer Commanding |
| RAF Depot, Middle East | RAF Aboukir | Gp Capt A L Gregory |
| Meteorological Station | RAF Depot, Middle East | |
| Port Detachment | RAF Depot, Middle East | |
| No 4 Flying Training School | RAF Abu Sueir | Gp Capt G S M Insall VC |
| RAF Station Heliopolis | Heliopolis, Egypt | Gp Capt R Collishaw |
| No 113 Sqn | RAF Heliopolis | Sqn Ldr F G Cator |
| No 208 Sqn | RAF Heliopolis | Sqn Ldr W A D Brook |
| No 216 Sqn | RAF Heliopolis | Wg Cdr G C Gardiner |
| Meteorological Station | RAF Heliopolis | |
| Communications Flt | RAF Heliopolis | |
| RAF Station Helwan | Helwan, Egypt | Wg Cdr W R Cox |
| No 45 Sqn | RAF Helwan | Sqn Ldr N V Morton |
| No 211 Sqn (1 Flt) † | RAF Helwan | Sqn Ldr S H Ware |
| RAF Station Ismailia | Ismailia, Egypt | Wg Cdr W E G Mann |
| No 33 Sqn | RAF Ismailia | Sqn Ldr H D McGregor |
| No 80 Sqn | RAF Ismailia | Sqn Ldr P S Blockey |
| Inter Command Wireless Station | RAF Ismailia | |
| Meteorological Station | RAF Ismailia | |
| No 47 Sqn | RAF Khartoum | Sqn Ldr G R C Spencer |
| RAF Station Nairobi | Nairobi, Kenya | Wg Cdr G S Shaw |
| No 223 Sqn | RAF Nairobi | Flt Lt D P Frost |
*The AOC is also responsible for the administration and training of RAF units under the operational command of the GOC, British Forces in Palestine and Trans-Jordan.
British Forces in Palestine and Trans-Jordan*
RAF in Palestine and Trans-Jordan
| Unit | Location | Officer Commanding |
| RAF Station Amman | Amman, Trans-Jordan | A/Cdre D Harries |
| No 14 Sqn | RAF Amman | Sqn Ldr A D Selway |
| Meteorological Station | RAF Amman | |
| RAF Station Ramleh | Ramleh, Palestine | Wg Cdr A H Flower |
| No 6 Sqn | RAF Ramleh | Sqn Ldr N C Singer |
| No 211 Sqn (HQ and 2 Flts) † | RAF Ramleh | Sqn Ldr S H Ware |
| No 2 Armoured Car Company (less 1 section) | RAF Ramleh | Sqn Ldr C H Stilwell |
| Meteorological Station | RAF Ramleh | |
| No 2 Armoured Car Company (1 section) | RAF Ma'an | |
| RAF Detachment | RAF Ma'an | |
| Combined Supply Depot | RAF Sarafand | Sqn Ldr F D D Gaussen |
| RAF General Hospital | RAF Sarafand |
| Unit | Location | Officer Commanding |
| 1 x Mechanised Company | Zerka | |
| 1 x Cavalry Sqn | Zerka | |
| 1 x Mechanised Company | Ma'an | |
| 0.5 x Cavalry Sqn | Semakh | |
| 0.5 x Cavalry Sqn | Roshpina | |
| 0.5 x Cavalry Sqn | Jisr el Mejamie | |
| 0.5 x Cavalry Sqn | Beisan |
* Responsibility for the defence of the region was temporarily transferred to the War Office on 15 September 1936 when a GOC was appointed. The AOC is directly responsible to the GOC for the general conduct of operations by all units in the command. For the administration and training of the RAF units in his command he comes under the AOC, RAF Middle East.
# This force is under the combined GHQ for operations and under the RAF HQ for administration
† The 211 Sqn ORB however, indicates that the unit had moved as a whole to Helwan but was operating detachments to Palestine.
Source - January 1939 Air Force List
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