RAF Home Command
RAF Home Command was the Royal Air Force command that was responsible for the maintenance and training of reserve organisations from formation on 1 February 1939 as RAF Reserve Command with interruptions until it ceased to exist on 1 April 1959.
History
The Command was formed as RAF Reserve Command on 1 February 1939. It was absorbed into RAF [Flying Training Command] on 27 May 1940 but reformed again on 1 May 1946. It was then renamed RAF Home Command on 1 August 1950 and absorbed into RAF Flying Training Command again on 1 April 1959.The command's communications squadron, the Home Command Communication Squadron, was formed on 1 August 1950 at RAF White Waltham and disestablished on 1 April 1959, still at White Waltham, becoming the Flying Training Command Communication Squadron RAF.
The command operated a number of units:
- Home Command Examining Unit
- No. 1 Home Command Gliding Centre
- No. 2 Home Command Gliding Centre
- Home Command Gliding Instructors School
- Home Command Instrument Training Flight
- Home Command Major Servicing Unit
- Home Command Modified Officer Cadet Training Unit
- Home Command Training Flight
Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief
Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief included:RAF Reserve Command
- 1 February 1939 Air Marshal Sir Christopher Courtney
- 28 August 1939 Air Chief Marshal Sir John Steel
- 22 April 1940 Air Vice Marshal Sir William Welsh
- 1 May 1946 Air Commodore E D H Davies
- 20 May 1946 Air Marshal Sir Alan Lees
- 1 October 1949 Air Marshal Sir Robert Foster
- 1 August 1950 Air Marshal Sir Robert Foster
- 31 Mar 1952 Air Marshal Sir Ronald Ivelaw-Chapman
- 1 October 1952 Air Marshal Sir Harold Lydford
- March 1956 Air Marshal Sir Douglas Macfadyen