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Thomas Williams (RAF officer)
Air Marshal Sir Thomas Melling Williams, KCB, OBE, MC, DFC & bar (27 September 1899 – 10 June 1956) was an ace pilot in the Royal Flying Corps during World War I, scoring nine aerial victories. He was also a senior officer in the Royal Air Force during World War II and the following years.
==Military career==
Williams was commissioned into the 12th South African Infantry and was in action in German West Africa in 1916 and 1917.〔
〕 He transferred into the Royal Flying Corps in 1917.〔 After training as a pilot, Williams was assigned to No. 65 Squadron in France, flying Sopwith Camels.〔 He achieved nine air victories.〔(The Aerodrome )〕 By the end of the war, in 1918, he was a flight commander, a role he continued when he was assigned to the British force in North Russia, supporting anti-Bolshevik forces.〔 After the War he commanded No. 423 Flight and then No. 406 Flight of the Fleet Air Arm.〔 He was appointed Station Commander at RAF Andover in 1938 and served in World War II being one of the last RAF officers to escape from France to Britain in 1940, leaving from Brest with his Air Officer Commanding.〔 He continued his was service as Station Commander at RAF Watton from 1940, as Senior Air Staff Officer at Headquarters No. 2 Group from 1941 and then as Senior Air Staff Officer at Headquarters RAF Bomber Command from later that year.〔 After serving in the Far East and in India, Williams was appointed Air Officer Commanding the AHQ Bengal in 1943.〔 He became Deputy Commander at Headquarters Eastern Air Command at Air Command South East Asia in December 1943 and Assistant Chief of the Air Staff (Operations) in August 1944.〔
After the War he became Commandant of the RAF Staff College, Bracknell and then Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief British Air Forces of Occupation before becoming Inspector-General of the RAF in 1951.〔 Williams' air force career was cut short by ill-health and he died in June 1956.〔
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