Robert Cecil Dawkins was a senior office in the Royal Air Force with a rank immediately below what other rank?
Group captain Group Captain, is a senior commissioned rank in many air forces. Group Captain has a NATO rank code of OF-5, meaning that it ranks above Wing commander, immediately below Air Commodore and is the equivalent of the naval rank of Captain and the rank of Colonel in other services.
Denis Spotswood Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir Denis Frank Spotswood, (26 September 1916 – 11 November 2001) was a senior commander in the Royal Air Force. He fought in the Second World War  as a flying boat pilot and then as a coastal reconnaissance squadron commander during Operation Torch, the invasion of North Africa. He served as a station commander in the late 1940s and early 1950s before becoming a senior air commander in the late 1950s. As the Chief of the Air Staff in the early 1970s he had a major role in implementing the defence savings demanded by the Heath Government in the face of economic difficulties at the time.