Air of Authority - A History of RAF Organisation
Lyster Fettiplace b: 21 Sep 1874 r: 30 Nov 1928 d: 7 Jun 1964
CB - 3 Jun 1924, CMG - xx xxx xxxx,
DSO - 23 Jun 1915, Cwn, O - xx xxx 1917,
CdeG
(B) - 11 Mar 1918, LoH,
C - 29 Nov 1918.
(Army): - 2 Lt: 26 Mar 1895, Lt: 26 Mar 1898, Capt: 1 Apr 1904, Maj: 30 Oct 1914, (T) Lt Col: 6 Feb 1916 - 8 Jul 1917, (B) Lt Col: 1 Jan 1917, Lt Col: 1 Oct 1921.
(RAF) Lt Col: 1 Apr 1918, (T) Col: 21 May 1918, Lt Col (Class A): 1 Oct 1918 [18 Apr 1918], Col: 1 Jan 1919, Gp Capt: 1 Aug 1919 [1 Jan 1919], (T) Gp Capt: 20 Nov 1922 [1 Jan 1919], A/Cdre: 1 Jul 1925:
(ASD Branch): Gp Capt: 14 Sep 1939.
(Tech Branch): Gp Capt: 24 Apr 1940.
26 Mar 1895: Officer, Royal Engineers (Aldershot)
xx xxx xxxx: Attended Course in Submarine Mining
xx xxx xxxx: Served in Bermuda, Jamaica and Victoria, B.C.
7 Jun 1904?: Served in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
19 Oct 1906: En-route to UK?
xx xxx 1906: Served at Pembroke Dock
12 Jan 1909: Assistant Inspector of RE stores, Royal Dockyard, Woolwich.
1 Apr 1911: Inspector of RE Stores
xx Jan 1913: Officer Commanding, GHQ Wireless Unit.
xx xxx 1914: Officer Commanding, Wireless Units, BEF
16 Feb 1916: Officer Commanding, Wireless
10 Jul 1917: Chief Experimental Officer, Signals Experimental Establishment.
18 Apr 1918: Officer Commanding, Wireless Experimental Establishment/ RAF Biggin Hill.
12 Dec 1918: Staff Officer (W/T), Department of the Chief of the Air Staff
1 May 1919: Relinquishes his Temporary Commission in the RAF.
1 May 1919: Controller of Communications, Department of Civil Aviation.
1 Aug 1919: Re-seconded to RAF for further two years (gazetted 27 Apr 1920)
xx xxx xxxx: Relinquishes his Temporary Commission in the RAF.
30 Nov 1922: Granted a Temporary Commission in the rank of Group Captain.
30
Nov 1922:
Head of Signals Branch.
30
Nov 1928:
14 Sep 1939: Appointed to Commission in Administrative and Special Duties Branch
14 Sep 1939: Deputy Director of Signals/Intelligence (4)
24 Apr 1940: Transferred to Technical Branch
xx xxx 1940: Deputy Director of Signals (Wireless Intelligence)
22
Apr 1942:
xx
xxx 1942:
Staff, Directorate of Intelligence (Security)
A signals
specialist, he held commissions in both the Army (RE) and the RAF as required by
his appointments in the Air Ministry.
Re-employed in 1939 as a Group Captain (Signals), he was Head of the 'Y'
Service, which intercepted enemy radio traffic passing the intercepts to
Bletchley Park for de-coding using Enigma.
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