Harold Willmott
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Brigadier Harold Willmott Template:Post-nominals (1899Template:Snd1993)[1] was a South African military commander.
Military career
He served in the Royal Air Force in World War I, and joined the South African Air Force in 1924.
During World War II, he served as Deputy Director-General of Air Services from 1939 to 1940, as commander of 3 Wing in North Africa from 1941 to 1942, as Director of the Coastal Air Force from 1942 to 1944, and as Deputy Director-General of the Air Force from 1944 to 1945, when he was promoted to Director-General.
After the war, he served as Officer Commanding Natal Command, and finally as Air Chief of Staff, from 17 October 1945 to 10 September 1946.[2]
Honours and awards
He was appointed Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in the January 1943 New Year Honours list.[3]
See also
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- 1899 births
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- South African Air Force personnel of World War II
- South African Commanders of the Order of the British Empire
- Graduates of the Staff College, Camberley
- Military personnel from the Western Cape