Air of Authority - A History of RAF Organisation
Distribution of Duties - Air Ministry (1944 - 1945)
[DGMS | MA 1 | MA 2 | MA 3 | MA 4 | MA 6 | MA 7 | MA 8 | WMLO | NSB]
Department of the Air Member for Personnel
Name | Status/Rank | Role/Duties/Notes |
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Sir Harold E Whittingham | AVM | Director-General of Medical Services (DGMS). Chairman: -
Member: -
Ex-officio member - Flying Personnel Research Committee Air Ministry Representative: -
Member of Court of Governors - London School Hygiene and Tropical Medicine |
W J G Walker | A/Cdre | Deputy Director-General of Medical Services (DDGMS). Control of MA 1, MA 2, MA 3, MA 7, MA 8 and WMLO Air Ministry Representative: -
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T McClurkin | A/Cdre | Director of Hygiene (D of H) Control of MA 4. Chief Executive Officer - Flying Personnel Research Committee Member: -
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G A Ballantyne | A/Cdre | Director of Dental Services (D of DS) Air Ministry Representative: -
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MA 1 | ||
J Clarke-Taylor | Wg Cdr | Head of Branch Organisation and administration of the Medical Branch of the RAF. Entry of medical officers and quartermasters. Posting of medical officers (Wing Commanders and above). Overseas postings of medical officers. Promotion of medical officers and quartermasters. Confidential reports. Personal questions affecting medical officers and airmen. Medical establishments. Liaison with Central Medical War Committee. Member - Medical Personnel (Priority) Committee for No 5 Region Air Ministry Representative: -
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R T Bevan | Sqn Ldr | Correspondence in connection with
appointment of medical officers (up to commissioning stage). Posting of medical officers up to and including Squadron Leaders, Courses of instruction for medical officers. Questions affecting training, remustering, reclassification, promotion, extension of service and re-engagement of airmen and airwomen of Group 'M'. WAAF substitution in medical trades. Estimate questions relating to medical personnel. Contracts of civilian medical practitioners. Claims for expenses by civil consultants. |
A S Peterkin | Higher Clerical Officer | Organisation and supervision of clerical work of MA
1. Medical officers - maintenance of personal records. Preparation of posting instructions. |
MA 2 | ||
J Hutchieson | Gp Capt | Head of Branch Liaison with other Government Departments on medical questions, and with British Red Cross Society and allied organisations. Medical standards for all personnel including aircrew. Policy, requirements and organisation for: -
Hospital diets. Transfer of aircrew and other casualties to special centres for treatment. Questions regarding sick leave. Invaliding policy and arrangements. Vocational training of 'war disabled' Air Ambulance organisations. Design and establishment of road ambulances. Design of ambulance trains. Medical policy matters relating to civil aviation, including standards of physical fitness of civil pilots. Air Ministry Representative: -
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J B Wallace A M Horsnell |
Wg Cdr Sqn Ldr |
Officers, cadets and PMRAFNS personnel: -
Medical examinations and assessment of physical fitness of civil pilots. First Aid equipment for government civil airfields. |
W T Buckle W Simpson S J Hadfield |
Wg Cdr Sqn Ldr Sqn Ldr |
Airmen, airwomen and apprentices: -
Assessment of medical fitness of educational and meteorological officers and civilian employees. Arrangement for medical examination of civilian employees, when required. Workmen's compensation claims. Injury claims by civilians. Amendments to medical forms, pamphlets and publications. |
A H Drury | Higher Clerical Officer | Organisation and supervision of clerical work of MA 2. |
MA 3 | ||
C E G Wickham | Wg Cdr | Head of Branch Organisation of supply of medical stores, equipment and appliances for all medical establishments and air, road and train ambulances. Scales of barrack equipment for hospitals, sick quarters and other medical establishments. Liaison with Ministry of Supply, British Red Cross Society and Allied Medical Directorates with regard to medical supplies. Medical Reference Libraries and supply of Air Force medical publications. Air Ministry Representative: -
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J Holt | Sqn Ldr | Medical quartermaster duties relating to the issues
of medical stores and hospital barrack equipment. Preparation of prototype outfits of medical equipment. |
C A Sirrett | Flt Lt | Provision of medical and dental supplies under
contract; preparation of requisitions on Ministry of Suuply;
arrangements for obtaining medical supplies under Lease/Lend
procedure. Applications for release of raw materials and controlled items for the purchase or manufacture of non-contract items. |
N P Ashford J Ballard |
Fg Off Plt Off |
Compilation and printing of scales of medical
equipment and lists of contents for composite medical outfits. Transport arrangements for medical stores of a special nature. |
S H Widdup | Staff Officer | Branch Security Officer Supervision of clerical staff of the Directorate-General. Control of clerical work of MA 3. Preparation of annual estimates for medical stores. |
R A V Maughan | Higher Clerical Officer | Demands for medical supplies (including apparatus
repairs) other than those supplied under fixed quantity contracts. Examination of contractors' accounts and of expenditure returns of medical stores. Discrepancy reports and unit medical cash accounts. |
H A Baker | Higher Clerical Officer | Provision of artificial limbs and eyes, spectacles
and contact lenses and surgical boots ands appliances. Checking of National Ophthalmic Treatment Board accounts for spectacles. Supply of books and publications for hospitals and Command Medical Reference Libraries. Demands for anaesthetic gases. Records of calf lymph supplies. |
MA 4 | ||
J W Patrick | Wg Cdr | Head of Branch Questions regarding preservation of health and prevention of disease, including all precautionary and remedial measures, and hygienic conditions affecting stations, camps, billets, movements, transport, dress and physical training. Sanitation, rations and water supplies. Questions regarding plans of new buildings, sitings, etc. Notification of infectious and contagious diseases. All matters relating to the medical aspects of chemical warfare organisation and defence measures. Medical Research and Flying Personnel Research Committee work. Air Ministry Representative: -
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I M Marshall | Higher Clerical Officer | Branch Security Officer Supervision of clerical work of MA 4. Secretarial duties for Flying Personnel Research Committee and its Sub-Committees. |
MA 6 | ||
F B Summerling | Wg Cdr | Head of Branch All routine matters relating to the Dental Services. Entry and release of Dental Officers. Liaison with Central Dental War Committee. Allocation and posting of Dental Officers to Units at Home and Overseas. Promotion of Dental Officers. Confidential reports. Dental establishments. Courses of instruction for Dental Officers. Questions affecting training, remustering, reclassification and promotion of dental personnel. Preparation of prototype outfits of dental equipment. Design and establishment of mobile dental units. Preparation of dental stores vocabularies and scales. Liaison with other Government Departments on dental questions. |
W E East | Higher Clerical Officer | Organisation and supervision of clerical work of MA
6. Dental officers - maintenance of personal records; preparation of posting instructions. |
MA 7 | ||
G O Williams | Wg Cdr | Head of Branch Preparation of Health Reports. Medical aspects of medical statistics. Medical history records policy. Study of methods of medical selection of personnel for aircrew duties, including special aptitude tests; medical research in this field.. Medical liaison in connection with Synthetic Training. Investigation of human factors in the causation of flying accidents; liaison with other branches concerned. Development of accident injury reporting system. Application of statistical methods to medical investigations; examination of medical statistical reports and, in collaboration with the Consultant in Medical Statistics, advice on methods of analysis and presentation. Air Ministry Representative: -
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C A Plumb | Staff Officer | Branch Security Officer Supervision of clerical staff of MA 7. Medical statistics and records. Preparation of statistical reports. |
W N Wedge F H Majoribanks |
Higher Clerical Officer Higher Clerical Officer |
Compilation of Form 48 enclosures. Supervision of medical reports of officers and of flying accidents, invaliding and deaths of RAF personnel generally. |
Miss W E Jenkins | Higher Clerical Officer | Supervisory duties in connection with coding. |
MA 8 | ||
E B Davies R Mortimer |
Wg Cdr (Head of Branch) Sqn Ldr |
Preparation of material for Medical History of the
War. Air Ministry Representative: -
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Miss D Craymer | Higher Clerical Officer | Secretarial and research duties in connection with the Medical History of the War. |
Woman Medical Liaison Officer (WMLO) | ||
E V Butler-Jones | Wg Cdr | Liaison, in connection with medical examination,
medical attendance, health and welfare of WAAF personnel, between
DGMS branches and the following: -
Visits to RAF Stations, as DGMS's representative, to inspect and advise on the health and welfare of WAAF personnel. Preparation of instructions for issue to Commands. DGMS's representative on the WAAF Advisory Council. |
Nursing Service Branch (NSB) | ||
Miss Taylor | Matron-in-Chief* | Organisation of Princess Mary's RAF
Nursing Service, including entry, retirement, pay, allowances,
leave, uniform, etc. Establishments. Personnel regulations; selection boards for candidates; postings; prop motion; personal records. Nursing arrangements; accommodation. Training of VAD members. *Member - Nursing Service Advisory Board. |
Miss M E Garnett | Principal Matron | |
F S Manning | Higher Clerical Officer (Branch Security Officer) |
Source - List of Staff and Distribution of Duties, January 1945 - AIR 20/7518 (AL44 - Nov 1945)
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