Wing Commander Richard Delwyn Williams

Service number 39835
Final Rank Wing Commander
Conflict/Operation Second World War, 1939-1945

Timeline

Date promoted 25/09/1935 Secomd lieutenant.
Other units 25/09/1935 Royal Regiment of Artillery Supplementary Reserve.
Date promoted 01/07/1937 Acting pilot officer.
Other units 17/07/1937 No 4 Flying Training School, Middle East.
Other units 06/05/1937 Civil Flying School, Yatesbury.
Date promoted 06/05/1937 Pupil pilot.
Other units 01/07/1937 Relinquished commission on appointment to RAF.
Other units 29/03/1938 No 11 Squadron.
Other units 17/02/1938 No 208 Squadron.
Other units 30/06/1938 No 28 Squadron.
Date promoted 06/12/1939 Flight lieutenant (war substantive).
Date promoted 06/12/1939 Flying officer.
Other units 06/05/1941 Transferred to Reserve of Air Force Officers.
Other units 16/10/1941 Commanding Officer No 451 Squadron.
Date promoted 16/10/1941 Acting squadron leader.
Other units 20/07/1941 No 451 Squadron.
Other units 25/02/1942 Commanding Officer No 74 Operational Training Unit.
Other units 19/05/1942 Air Headquarters Levant.
Date promoted 01/03/1942 Temporary squadron leader.
Date promoted 25/09/1942 Acting wing commander.
Other units 27/10/1943 Directorate of Air and Foreign Liaison Air Ministry, UK.
Date promoted 10/04/1943 Squadron leader (war substantive).
Date promoted 27/10/1943 Acting wing commander.
Other units 15/04/1944 Deputy Directorate of Policy - Air Ministry.
Date promoted 01/09/1945 Permanant commission as squadron leader.
Other units 25/08/1947 Station Hemswell.
Date promoted 01/07/1947 Wing commander.
Other units 29/05/1947 No 230 Operational Conversion Unit.
Other units 08/08/1949 Station Shallufa, Mediterranean, Middle East.
Other units 22/07/1950 Headquarters No 205 Group, Middle East Air Force.
Other units 17/12/1951 Directorate General of Organisation - Air Ministry UK.

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