Department of the Air Member for Personnel

Name	Status/Title	Role/Duties
Personnel policy of the Royal Air Force and its maintenance in officers and airmen; provision of reserves: personnel mobilisation and demobilisation. Planning in regard to the use of man-power and for the manning of the RAF Discipline. Ceremonial. Honours and awards. Records of officers and airmen Royal Air Force Medical Service. Chaplains. Liaison with Admiralty, War Office, Colonial Office and India Office on personnel questions. Administration of the personnel vote. Appointments, promotions and postings. Royal Air Force Educational Service. Welfare of officers and airmen. Casualties to officers and disposal of effects.
Phillip Babington	Act AM	Air Member for Personnel
W A Campbel		Private Secretary
M H Edwards	Rev	Chaplain in Chief Organisation of Chaplains' Branch for Church of England and appointment of chaplains.

Source - List of Staff and Distribution of Duties, 1944 - AIR 20/7517 (AL33 - Dec 1944)

Name	Status/Rank	Role/Duties
W M Page		Director of Educational Services
General and technical education of all ranks. Educational examinations and university courses. Entry of aircraft apprentices, apprentice clerks and apprentice clerks in conjunction with D of M and DPS Schools for airmen's children. Control of RAF Educational Service. Ex-officers - opportunities for civil employment. Officer marked hold commissions in the RAFVR.
ES 1
J A Taylor* C W B Watford	Principal Education Officer Higher Clerical Officer	Principal Education Officer acts for Director of Educational Services in his absence. Inspection of educational work in Home Commands. Educational staff questions. General questions relating t the Educational Services. Estimates. Schools for airmen's children.
ES 2
Vacant W G Sheppard* Vacant	Education Officer Grade I Education Officer Grade II Education Officer Grade III	Examinations and syllabi. Tutorial courses. Officers' courses. Educational bulletin. Conference of Command Education Officers. Educational accommodation and supplies. Libraries, apparatus, etc.
ES 3
L Cullis* Vacant Vacant W A Dickins	Education Officer Grade II Education Officer Grade III Education Officer Grade III Higher Clerical Officer	Entry of aircraft apprentices and apprentice clerks in conjunction with D of M and DPS Liaison with local education authorities and schools.
ES 4
Vacant	Special Appointment	Air Forces Officers ' Employment Association.

Source - List of Staff and Distribution of Duties (Part III),- AIR 20/7512

Name	Status/Rank	Role/Duties/Notes
Advice on conditions of service, recruitment, training, posting and promotion of Accountant Officers, Clerks Accounting, Clerks Pay Accounting and Clerks Equipment Accounting. Questions on establishments of unit accounting sections (in conjunction with other Directorates and Finance Divisions). Advice on instructions, to be issued by the Air Ministry, which materially affect the work of the Accountant Branch. Advice on pay and equipment accounting in units. Initiation of systems and procedure to improve the efficiency of the Accountant Branch. Questions on the accounting for non-public funds.
J Rylands	A/Cdre	Senior Service Accountant
W S Calder	Wg Cdr	Staff Officer to SSA.

Source - List of Staff and Distribution of Duties 1942 Edition (AL5 - 22 December 1942) - AIR 20/7515

Name	Status/Rank	Role/Duties/Notes
H F Fuller	A/Cdre	Senior Service Accountant
W A Calder H Bamforth	Gp Capt Sqn Ldr	Advice and recommendations on accounting procedure at Units (other than on 'Release' and at Units on the Base Accounting System) Advice and recommendations on accounting organisation. Advice and recommendations in regard to Accountant personnel (entry, training, conditions of service, postings, careers, etc.) Advice and recommendations on establishment of accountant personnel. Individual queries in Accounting matters.
K M Crick	Wg Cdr	Advice and recommendations on accounting procedure affecting 'Release'. Individual queries on payment of Terminal Benefits. Technical control of 'Release Accounts Section', Record Office, Gloucester. Inspection of Personnel Dispersal Centres.
H C Stanies	Wg Cdr	Technical control of Base Accounts Office, Innsworth. Advice and recommendations on accounting procedure and organisation in Commands on the Base Accounting System. Policy - POR Promulgations. Administrative matters - the responsibility of Accountant Officers at Units. Accounts liaison with Allied Forces. Accounting for Non-Public Funds. Accounting procedure in connection with National Saving Certificates and Post Office Savings Bank Accounts.

Name	Status/Rank	Role/Duties/Notes
Sir Bertine Sutton	AM	Air Member for Personnel
J B R Davies	Senior Temporary Assistant	Private Secretary
Miss B Huggett	Temporary Administrative Assistant	Assistant Private Secretary
All matters in connection with the personnel of the RAF (except training). Administration of the RAF Medical and Chaplaincy services, and of the WAAF Administration of the Personnel Vote.