Robert Cecil Dawkins was a senior office in the Royal Air Force with a rank immediately below what other rank?
Robert Cecil Dawkins Group Captain Robert Cecil Dawkins CBE (1903-1985) was a senior officer in the Royal Air Force. In September 1951 he was made CBE for services in Malaya, principally for operational achievements while he was in command of the R.A.F. station at Tengah. In 1951 he was made station commander at R.A.F. Hendon until his retirement in 1955.
Air commodore-in-chief Air Commodore-in-Chief is a senior honorary air force appointment which originated in the Royal Air Force and now exists in the air forces of various Commonwealth realms. Appointees are made Air Commodore-in-Chief of a large air force organisation or formation. Initially only the British monarch held air commodore-in-chief appointments. However, since the second half of the 20th century, other members of the royal family have been appointed to such positions in the United Kingdom and the other realms such as Australia, Canada and New Zealand.