Wing Commander John Arthur Gordon Coates

Timeline

Date promoted	03/10/1939	Pilot officer.
Other units	30/12/1939	Service Flying Training School.
Other units	03/10/1939	Commission, General Duties Branch of RAF volunteer Reserve.
Date promoted	03/10/1940	Flying officer.
Other units	30/07/1940	No 608 Squadron.
Date promoted	07/08/1941	Acting flight lieutenant.
Other units	10/06/1941	No 203 Squadron.
Date promoted	03/10/1941	Flight lieutenant (war sunstantive).
Date promoted	26/01/1942	Acting squadron leader.
Other units	20/06/1942	Headquarters No 201 Group.
Date promoted	04/10/1943	Acting wing commander.
Date promoted	04/01/1944	Squadron leader (war substantive).
Other units	01/04/1944	Air Headquarters Eastern Mediterranean.
Other units	11/09/1945	No 20 Aircrew Holding Unit.
Other units	25/07/1945	Command Station Sambury.
Other units	23/04/1946	No 21 Air Crew Holding Unit.
Other	21/10/1946	Last day of service.
Other	08/07/1946	Released.
Date promoted	01/08/1950	Wing commander.
Other unts	01/08/1950	Regimental Branch of the Reconstituted Royal Auxiliary Air Force 2608 Light Anti-Aircraft Squadron.
Other unts	05/11/1951	General Duties Branch, Royal Auxiliary Air Force Reserve of Officers.