Appendix I

Group Captain W. E Rankin CBE DSO
Record of Service

Postings Duties Date
Depot Supernumerary 02.3.31
No. 12(B) Squadron Flying 16.3.31
No. 2 Flying Training School Further Flying Training 12.5.31
No. 12(B) Squadron Flying 11.6.31
No. 58(B) Squadron Flying 22.11.33
HQ. Air Defence Great Britain Flying & Air Pilotage 12.3.34
No. 3 Flying Training School Flying Instructor 11.3.35
No. 23 Group HQ Air Staff 14.8.35
No. 48 (Genl. Recce.) Squadron Flying 25.4.36
School of Navigation Flying 20.5.36
269 (General Recce.) Squadron Flying & Flying Instructor 25.2.37
Bircham Newton Flying 17.4.39
Silloth Flying 13.11.39
417 Flight Flying Command 13.7.40
220 Squadron Flying 30.1.41
117 Squadron (Middle East) To Command 17.3.41
37 Squadron (Middle East) To Command 8.8.42
205 Group (Middle East) Senior Air Staff Officer 4.2.43
AHQ Levant (Middle East) Supernumerary 18.4.43
249 Wing (Middle East) To Command 19.6.43
334 Wing (Nth African Air Force) To Command 13.9.43
HQ Middle East Supernumerary 17.8.44
Takoradi (West Africa) To Command 30.9.44
HQ Air Command South East Asia Supernumerary 31.5.45
HQ Transport Command Supernumerary 13.6.45
RAF Station Mepal To Command 16.1.46
RAF Station Tuddenham To Command 8.4.46
RAF Station Hemswell To Command 4.12.46
HQ Flying Training Command Organisation 12.4.48
HQ Bomber Command Organisation 25.10.48
RAF Station Hednesford To Command 2.4.51
Air Ministry Director Genl. Org. Briefing 11.5.53
HQ. Middle East Air Force Administration Plans 22.6.53
Fayid Middle East Air Force To Command 4.2.55
RAF Station Feltwell (No. 3 FTS) To Command 20.2.56

Honours and Awards:

Mentioned in Despatches : London Gazette 01 Jan 1941
Commander of the Order of Orange Nassau, conferred by The Queen of the Netherlands : London Gazette 20 Oct 1942
Distinguished Service Order : London Gazette 06 Apr 1944
Order of Polonia Restituta (3rd Class), conferred by the President of Poland : London Gazette 16 Jan 1945
Commander of the Order of the British Empire (Military) : London Gazette 09 Jun 1955

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