Alan Boxer
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Script error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Air Vice Marshal Sir Alan Hunter Cachemaille Boxer, Template:Postnominals (1 December 1916 – 26 April 1998) was a senior Royal Air Force officer.
Early life
Boxer was born in Hastings, New Zealand, on 1 December 1916,[1] and was educated at Nelson College from 1927 to 1935.[2]
RAF career
Boxer joined the Royal Air Force in January 1939 and saw service during the Second World War as a pilot with No. 161 Squadron at RAF Tempsford,[3] as a flight commander with No. 138 Squadron and then as Commanding Officer of No. 161 Squadron from 1943.[4] He continued his war service on the staff in the Directorate of Intelligence at the Air Ministry from September 1943 and then on the staff at Headquarters RAF Bomber Command from February 1945.[4]
Boxer remained in the Royal Air Force after the war. Boxer flew B-29s over Korea while on secondment to the USAF.[5] He became Officer Commanding No. 7 Squadron in 1956, Station Commander at RAF Wittering in 1958 and Group Captain responsible for Plans at Headquarters Bomber Command in 1959.[4] He went on to be Senior Air Staff Officer at Headquarters No. 1 Group in 1963, Senior Air Staff Officer at Headquarters RAF Bomber Command in 1965 and Defence Services Secretary in 1967 before retiring in 1970.[4]
References
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- ↑ Nelson College Old Boys' Register, 1856–2006, 6th edition
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- ↑ a b c d Air of Authority – A History of RAF Organisation – Air Vice-Marshal Sir Alan Boxer
- ↑ Newton, Dennis Kiwis over Korea article Fly Past magazine February 2006 pp. 61–2
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