Air Chief Marshal Sir Trafford Leigh-Mallory, was a senior commander in the Royal Air Force. Leigh-Mallory served as a Royal Flying Corps pilot and squadron commander during the First World War. Remaining in the newly formed RAF after the war, Leigh-Mallory served in a variety of staff and training appointments throughout the 1920s and 1930s.
Sir Trafford Leigh-Mallory c.1944
Leigh-Mallory at No. 11 Group Headquarters, Uxbridge, Middlesex.
Leigh-Mallory at a squadron briefing in France in September 1944.
No. 12 Group RAF of the Royal Air Force was a group, a military formation, that existed over two separate periods, namely the end of the First World War when it had a training function and from just prior to the Second World War until the early 1960s when it was tasked with an air defence role.
RAF and WAAF servicemen and women of B Watch (Operations) at RAF Watnall
Vj Day Parade and Service at RAF Watnall
A Supermarine Spitfire F.22 of No. 613 (City of Manchester) Squadron RAuxAF, at RAF Ringway in May 1949.
de Havilland Mosquito NF.30 MM790 of 605 (County of Warwick) Squadron RAuxAF at RAF Ringway