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.
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.