Air of Authority - A History of RAF Organisation
John
Glanville
b: 5 Aug 1883
r: 1 Sep 1927
d: 9 Jan 1964
CB
- 1 Jan 1919, CBE - 3 Jun 1924,
DSO - 14 Jan 1916
(Army):
- 2 Lt: 31 Jul 1902, Lt:
22 Feb 1905, Capt: 31 Jul 1913, (T)
Maj: 17 Dec 1915, (T) Lt Col: 6 May 1916, Maj: 1 Jun 1916,
(B) Maj: 1 Jan 1917,
Maj: 31 Jul 1917, (T)
Brig-Gen: 28 Oct 1917.
(RAF):
- (T) Brig-Gen [Lt Col]: 1
Apr 1918, Act Col: 22 May 1919, Wg
Cdr: 1 Aug 1919, Gp Capt: 8 Aug
1919, A/Cdre: 30 Jun 1923.
Photos courtesy - Hugh Green (J G Hearson's Grandson)
xx
xxx xxxx:
Attended RMA Woolwich.
31 Jul 1902:
Officer, Royal Engineers.
7 Oct 1905:
Assistant
Superintendent of Surveys,
Officer, South Nigeria
Boundary Commission.
12 Oct 1906: Member, Anglo/French (Niger/Chad) Boundary Commission
24 Oct 1908:
2 Mar 1910:
Superintendent of Roads, Gold Coast Colony.
18 Nov 1912:
1914
Attended Central Flying School?
11 May 1915: Flight Commander, No 2 Sqn RFC?
2 Oct 1915: Returned to UK
22
Dec 1915:
Officer Commanding, No 5 Sqn RFC. (BE2c – Western Front)
6 May 1916: Attached, 9th (HQ) Wing
21 Jun 1916:
Officer Commanding, 15th (Corps) Wing, Reserve Army.
28 Oct 1917:
Chief Staff Officer, HQ Training Division RFC.
1 Apr 1918: Director of Training.
22
May
1919:
Colonel (Staff), Air Ministry
1 Aug 1919: Awarded Permanent Commission as a Lieutenant Colonel
1
Apr 1920:
Commandant, RAF Depot.
xx xxx 1922: Member, British Delegation (Air Section), Paris. (British Aeronautical Advisor to the Council of Ambassadors)
1
Jun 1922:
Supernumerary, RAF Depot.
28
Jul 1922:
SESO, HQ Iraq Command.
22
Oct 1923:
Chief Staff Officer, HQ Iraq Command.
15
Sep 1924:
Supernumerary, HQ Coastal Area.
19
Jan 1925:
Supernumerary - non effective (sick), RAF Depot.
1
Dec 1925:
AOC, Special Reserve and Auxiliary Air Force.
18 Jul 1927: AOC, Air Defence Group
25 Aug 1927:
AOC,
No 1 Air Defence Group.
1 May 1937: AOC, No 30 (Balloon Barrage) Group.
xx xxx 1939: ?
xx xxx xxxx: AOC, Balloon Command?
Educated at Marlborough School, he entered the RMA at Woolwich and was awarded RAeC Certificate No 1137 on 11 March 1915. He was a surveying/mapping specialist, being one of the first to produce maps from aerial photographs. From 1928 he was the Vice-President of the Port Elizabeth Light Aeroplane Club, South Africa.
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C M
Heard