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[[Air Vice Marshal]] Sir '''[[Bernard Chacksfield]]''' [[Order of the British Empire|KBE]] [[Order of the Bath|CB]] [[Royal Air Force|RAF]] (13 April 1913 &ndash; 27 December 1999) was a senior [[Royal Air Force]] officer in the 1950s and 1960s and later a chief commissioner of the [[The Scout Association]] and chairman of the [[Burma Star Association]]. Chacksfield joined the Royal Air Force in 1927 and was selected for flying training and gaining a commission as a Pilot Officer in 1933. He served on the North West Frontier in 1933 as a [[Westland Wapiti]] pilot. By 1944 Chacksfield was in command of No. 910 Wing in Burma operating the [[P-47 Thunderbolt|Republic Thunderbolt]] fighter-bomber. From 1945 he became an air officer and served in the Air Ministry and later with [[NATO]]. He served in a number of senior positions until finally becoming [[Commandant-General of the RAF Regiment]] in 1963. Chacksfield retired in 1968 as an Air Vice-Marshal. With a long time interest in the Scout movement he was appointed in 1970 as chief commissioner for the Scout Association later being awarded the movements highest award, the [[Silver Wolf Award (The Scout Association)|Silver Wolf]] in 1975. In retirement he became chairman on the [[Burma Star Association]] until his death from cancer in 1999.