Robert Whittaker (British Army officer)
Major-General Robert Frederick Edward Whittaker, CB, CBE, TD, was a City of London banker and a senior officer in Britain's part-time Territorial Army (TA). He rose to the position of chief of staff at Anti-Aircraft Command during World War II.
Robert Whittaker (British Army officer)
206 Brompton Road, the former Brompton Road tube station closed in 1934, used as the headquarters of Whittaker's 26th (London) AA Brigade and of the London Inner Artillery Zone during World War II.
Major General Robert Whittaker (centre left); Lieutenant General Sydney Wason (centre), and Lieutenant General Sir Frederick Pile (centre right) at Anti-Aircraft Command on 14 February 1941 during a visit by David Margesson, the Secretary of State for War.
Anti-Aircraft Command was a British Army command of the Second World War that controlled the Territorial Army anti-aircraft artillery and searchlight formations and units defending the United Kingdom.
Sir Frederick Pile, GOCinC, AA Command, during the Second World War
Maj-Gen Robert Whittaler, GOC 1st AA Division 1940–42, MGGS at AA Command HQ 1942–44.
ATS 'Ack-Ack Girls' memorial at the National Memorial Arboretum. The badges depicted are those of the Auxiliary Territorial Service, Royal Artillery and AA Command.
Senior Controller Christian Fraser-Tytler, DDATS at AA Command HQ from 1943.
