Britse Commands

Inleiding

De hoogste operationele structuur binnen diverse Geallieerde strijdkrachten stond en staat veelal bekend onder de term Command. Dit was en is ook het geval bij het British Armed Forces. In dit overzicht staan de diverse Britse Commands opgesomd zoals die bestonden en bestaan binnen de British Army, Royal Navy en Royal Air Force.

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Geschiedenis

In 1911 werd de structuur van het British Army grondig herzien en werd de hoogste operationele structuur, de Command geïntroduceerd. Direct onder de bevelstructuur van een Command volgden afhankelijk van de doelstelling van het Command een aantal ander hogere of lagere onderdelen. Bij de Royal Air Force stond een Command op vergelijkbare hoogte met een divisie bij de landmacht qua structuur maar op gelijkwaardige hoogte als bij de landmacht qua bevelstructuur. Bij de Royal Navy stond een Command direct onder de Admiralty en daardoor op gelijke bevelshoogte als een Fleet.

Army Home Commands United Kingdom


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Aldershot Command
Voorloper:
Division at Aldershot (1857-1880)
Aldershot District Command (1880-1901)
Troops at Aldershot (1901-1907)
Ontstaan:
1 december 1907
Einde:
25 februari 1941
Opvolger:
South Eastern Command (1941-1944)
Aldershot District (1944-1967)
Bevelhebbers:
Lieutenant General Sir Horace Smith-Dorrien
Lieutenant General Sir Douglas Haig
Major General Alexander Hamilton-Gordon
General Sir Archibald Hunter
General Sir Archibald Murray
General Lord Rawlinson
General The Earl of Cavan
Lieutenant General Sir Thomas Morland
Lieutenant General Sir Philip Chetwode
Lieutenant General Sir David Campbell
Lieutenant General Sir Charles Harington
Lieutenant General Sir Francis Gathorne-Hardy
Lieutenant General Sir John Dill
Lieutenant General Sir Charles Broad
Lieutenant General Michael Barker
Major General Geoffrey Raikes
Major General Dudley Johnson
Basissamenstelling:
1st Division/1st Infantry Division
2nd Division/2nd Infantry Division
1st Cavalry Brigade/1st Army Tank Brigade

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Anti-Aircraft Command
Voorloper:
Anti-Aircraft Corps
Ontstaan:
1 april 1939
Einde:
10 maart 1955
Opvolger:
geen
Bevelhebbers:
Lieutenant-General Alan Brooke
Lieutenant-General Sir Frederick Pile
Lieutenant-General Sir William Green
Lieutenant-General Otto Lund
Lieutenant-General Sir Ivor Thomas
Lieutenant-General Charles Loewen
Lieutenant-General Sir Maurice Chilton
Basissamenstelling:
1st Anti-Aircraft Group
2nd Anti-Aircraft Group
3rd Anti-Aircraft Group
4th Anti-Aircraft Group
5th Anti-Aircraft Group
6th Anti-Aircraft Group
7th Anti-Aircraft Group

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Army Strategic Command
Voorloper:
Southern Command
Ontstaan:
1 april 1968
Einde:
1972
Opvolger:
United Kingdom Land Forces
Bevelhebbers:
General Sir John Mogg
Lieutenant-General Sir Mervyn Butler
Lieutenant-General Sir Frank King
Basissamenstelling:
3rd Infantry Division
5th Infantry Division

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Eastern Command
Voorloper:
Eastern District (1795-1903)
4th Army Corps (1903-1905)
Ontstaan:
1 juni 1905
Einde:
1968
Opvolger:
Southern Command
Bevelhebbers:
Lieutenant General Lord Methuen
Lieutenant General Sir Arthur Paget
Lieutenant General Sir James Grierson
Lieutenant General Sir Charles Woollcombe
Lieutenant General Sir Leslie Rundle
Lieutenant General Sir James Wolfe Murray
Lieutenant General Sir Henry Wilson
General Sir William Robertson
Lieutenant General Sir Charles Woollcombe
General Lord Horne
Lieutenant General Sir George Milne
Lieutenant General Sir Walter Braithwaite
General Sir Robert Whigham
General Sir Webb Gillman
Lieutenant General Sir Cyril Deverell
Lieutenant General Sir Edmund Ironside
Lieutenant General Sir Guy Williams
Lieutenant General Laurence Carr
Lieutenant General Sir Kenneth Anderson
Lieutenant General Sir James Gammell
Lieutenant General Sir Kenneth Anderson
Lieutenant General Sir Alan Cunningham
Lieutenant General Sir Oliver Leese
General Sir Evelyn Barker
General Sir Gerald Templer
Lieutenant General Sir George Erskine
Lieutenant General Sir Geoffrey Bourne
Lieutenant General Sir Francis Festing
Lieutenant General Sir Charles Coleman
Lieutenant General Sir James Cassels
General Sir Gerald Lathbury
Lieutenant General Sir Roderick McLeod
Lieutenant General Sir George Cole
Lieutenant General Sir David Peel Yates
Basissamenstelling:
IV Corps
12th (Eastern) Division
18th (Eastern) Division
4th Infantry Division
76th Infantry (Reserve) Division

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Home Command
Voorloper:
Personnel and Support Command
Ontstaan:
2016
Einde:
operationeel
Opvolger:
geen
Bevelhebbers:
Lieutenant-General James Bashall
Lieutenant-General Tyrone Urch
Lieutenant-General Ian Cave
Lieutenant-General Charles Seymour Collins
Basissamenstelling:
Regional Command
London District
Army Recruiting and Initial Training Command
Army Personnel Centre and General Officer Commanding Scotland
Sandhurst Group.

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Land Command
Voorloper:
HQ British Army of the Rhine
Ontstaan:
1 april 1995
Einde:
1 april 2008
Opvolger:
HQ Land Forces
Bevelhebbers:
General Sir John Wilsey
General Sir Roger Wheeler
General Sir Michael Walker
General Sir Michael Jackson
General Sir Timothy Granville-Chapman
General Sir Richard Dannatt
General Sir Redmond Watt
Basissamenstelling:
Field Army
Reginonal Forces

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Northern Command
Voorloper:
Northern District (1793-1889)
North Eastern District (1889-1905)
Ontstaan:
1905
Einde:
1972
Opvolger:
HQ UK Land Forces
Bevelhebbers:
Lieutenant General Sir Leslie Rundle
Lieutenant General Sir Laurence Oliphant
Lieutenant General Sir Herbert Plumer
Lieutenant General Sir Henry Lawson
Lieutenant General Sir John Maxwell
Lieutenant General Sir Ivor Maxse
Lieutenant General Sir Charles Harington
Lieutenant General Sir Cameron Shute
Lieutenant General Sir Francis Gathorne-Hardy
Lieutenant General Sir Alexander Wardrop
Lieutenant General Sir William Bartholomew
Lieutenant General Sir Ronald Forbes Adam
Lieutenant General Sir Ralph Eastwood
Lieutenant General Sir Edwin Morris
Lieutenant General Sir Philip Christison
Lieutenant General Sir Montagu Stopford
Lieutenant General Sir Philip Balfour
Lieutenant General Sir Geoffrey Evans
Lieutenant General Sir Richard Goodbody
Lieutenant General Sir Michael West
Lieutenant General Sir Charles Jones
Lieutenant General Sir Charles Richardson
Lieutenant General Sir Geoffrey Musson
Lieutenant General Sir Walter Walker
Lieutenant General Sir Cecil Blacker
Lieutenant General Sir William Jackson
Basissamenstelling:
V Corps
11th (Northern) Division
17th (Northern) Division
5th Infantry Division
25th Army Tank Brigade
77th Infantry (Reserve) Division

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Personnel and Support Command
Voorloper:
Adjutant-General to the Forces
Ontstaan:
2015
Einde:
2016
Opvolger:
Home Command
Bevelhebbers:
Lieutenant-General James Bashall
Basissamenstelling:
onbekend

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Scottish Command
Voorloper:
Scottish Army (1661-1697)
North British District (1868-1893)
Scottish District (1893-1905)
Ontstaan:
1905
Einde:
1972
Opvolger:
HQ UK Land Forces
Bevelhebbers:
Lieutenant General Sir Charles Tucker
Lieutenant General Sir Edward Leach
Lieutenant General Sir Bruce Hamilton
Lieutenant General Sir James Wolfe Murray
Lieutenant General Sir Spencer Ewart
Lieutenant General Sir Frederick McCracken
Lieutenant General Sir Francis Davies
Lieutenant General Sir Walter Braithwaite
Lieutenant General Sir William Peyton
General Sir Percy Radcliffe
General Sir Archibald Cameron
General Sir Charles Grant
Lieutenant General Sir Harold Carrington
Lieutenant General Sir Andrew Thorne
Lieutenant General Sir Neil Ritchie
Lieutenant General Sir Philip Christison
Lieutenant General Sir Gordon MacMillan
Lieutenant General Sir Colin Barber
Lieutenant General Sir Horatius Murray
Lieutenant General Sir George Collingwood
Lieutenant General Sir William Turner
Lieutenant General Sir George Gordon-Lennox
Lieutenant General Sir Derek Lang
Lieutenant General Sir Henry Leask
Basissamenstelling:
VI Corps
9th (Scottish) Division
15th (Scottish) Division
51st (Highland) Division
64th (2nd Highland) Division
9th (Highland) Infantry Division
51st (Highland) Infantry Division
15th (Scottish) Infantry Division
52nd (Lowland) Infantry Division

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Southern Command
Voorloper:
South-West District (1793-1865)
Southern District (1865-1904)
2nd Corps (1904-1905)
Ontstaan:
1905
Einde:
1972
Opvolger:
HQ UK Land Forces
Bevelhebbers:
Lieutenant General Sir Ian Hamilton
Lieutenant General Sir Charles Douglas
Lieutenant General Sir Horace Smith-Dorrien
Lieutenant General Sir William Campbell
Lieutenant General Sir Henry Sclater
Lieutenant General Sir George Harper
Lieutenant General Sir Walter Congreve
Lieutenant General Sir Alexander Godley
Lieutenant General Sir Archibald Montgomery-Massingberd
Lieutenant General Sir Cecil Romer
Lieutenant General Sir Percy Radcliffe
Lieutenant General Sir John Burnett-Stuart
Lieutenant General Sir Archibald Wavell
Lieutenant General Sir Alan Brooke
Lieutenant General Sir Bertie Fisher
Lieutenant General Sir Alan Brooke
Lieutenant General Sir Claude Auchinleck
Lieutenant General Sir Harold Alexander
Lieutenant General Sir Charles Loyd
Lieutenant General Sir William Morgan
Lieutenant General Sir Sidney Kirkman
Lieutenant General Sir John Crocker
Lieutenant General Sir John Harding
Lieutenant General Sir Ouvry Roberts
Lieutenant General Sir Ernest Down
Lieutenant General Sir George Erskine
Lieutenant General Sir Nigel Poett
Lieutenant General Sir Robert Bray
Lieutenant General Sir Kenneth Darling
Lieutenant General Sir Geoffrey Baker
Lieutenant General Sir John Mogg
Lieutenant General Sir David Peel Yates
Lieutenant General Sir Michael Carver
Lieutenant General Sir Basil Eugster
Basissamenstelling:
II Corps
1st Armoured Division
3rd Infantry Division

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South Eastern Command
Voorloper:
Aldershot Command
Ontstaan:
15 februari 1941
Einde:
september 1944
Opvolger:
Aldershot District (1944-1967)
Bevelhebbers:
Lieutenant General Sir Bernard Paget
Lieutenant General Sir Bernard Montgomery
Lieutenant General Sir John Swayne
Lieutenant General Sir Edmond Schreiber
Lieutenant General Eric Miles
Basissamenstelling:
1st Division/1st Infantry Division
2nd Division/2nd Infantry Division
1st Cavalry Brigade/1st Army Tank Brigade

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Welsh & Midland Command
Voorloper:
North Western District
Ontstaan:
1905
Einde:
1906
Opvolger:
Western Command
Bevelhebbers:
Major General Sir Francis Howard
Basissamenstelling:
onbekend

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Western Command
Voorloper:
Welsh & Midland Command
Ontstaan:
1906
Einde:
1972
Opvolger:
HQ UK Land Forces
Bevelhebbers:
Major General Sir Francis Howard
Lieutenant General Sir Charles Burnett
Lieutenant General Sir Henry Mackinnon
Lieutenant General Sir William Campbell
Lieutenant General Sir Thomas Snow
Lieutenant General Sir Beauvoir De Lisle
Lieutenant General Sir John Du Cane
Lieutenant General Sir Richard Butler
Lieutenant General Sir Cecil Romer
Lieutenant General Sir Cyril Deverell
Lieutenant General Sir Walter Kirke
Lieutenant General Sir Henry Jackson
Lieutenant General Sir Robert Haining
General Sir Henry Jackson
General Sir Robert Gordon-Finlayson
Lieutenant General Sir James Marshall-Cornwall
Lieutenant General Sir Edmond Schreiber
Lieutenant General Sir Daril Watson
Lieutenant General Sir Brian Horrocks
Lieutenant General Sir Frank Simpson
Lieutenant General Sir Cameron Nicholson
Lieutenant General Sir Charles Loewen
General Sir Lashmer Whistler
Lieutenant General Sir Otway Herbert
Lieutenant General Sir William Stirling
Lieutenant General Sir Edward Howard-Vyse
Lieutenant General Sir Richard Craddock
Lieutenant General Sir Antony Read
Lieutenant General Sir Napier Crookenden
Basissamenstelling:
13th (Western) Division
19th (Western) Division
4th Anti-Aircraft Division
80th Infantry (Reserve) Division
38th Infantry (Reserve) Division


Overseas Commands


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Aden Command
Voorloper:
geen
Ontstaan:
1928
Einde:
1936
Opvolger:
British Forces in Aden (1936)
Bevelhebbers:
Group Captain W. G. S. Mitchell
Group Captain C. T. MacLean
Group Captain O. T. Boyd
Group Captain C. F. A. Portal
Air Vice-Marshal E. L. Gossage
Basissamenstelling:
?

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Burma Command
Voorloper:
geen
Ontstaan:
1937 (1e keer)
1945 (2e keer)
Einde:
1942 (1e keer)
1948 (2e keer)
Opvolger:
geen
Bevelhebbers:
Lieutenant-General Kenneth McLeod
Lieutenant-General Thomas Hutton
General Sir Harold Alexander
Lieutenant-General Harold Briggs
Basissamenstelling:
?


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Cyrenaica Command
Voorloper:
geen
Ontstaan:
?
Einde:
?
Opvolger:
geen
Bevelhebbers:
?
Basissamenstelling:
?


East Africa Command
Voorloper:
geen
Ontstaan:
1941
Einde:
1963
Opvolger:
geen
Bevelhebbers:
Lieutenant General Sir William Platt
Lieutenant General Sir Kenneth Anderson
Major General William Dimoline
1Lieutenant General Sir Arthur Dowler
Lieutenant General Sir Alexander Cameron
General Sir George Erskine
Lieutenant General Sir Gerald Lathbury
Major General Sir Nigel Tapp
Major-General Sir Richard Elton Goodwin
Major General Ian Freeland
Basissamenstelling:
?

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Far East Command (UK)
Voorloper:
geen
Ontstaan:
18 november 1940 (1e keer)
1963 (2e keer)
Einde:
27 december 1941 (1e keer)
11 januari 1971 (2e keer)
Opvolger:
ABDA-Command (1e keer)
ANZUK Force (2e keer)
Bevelhebbers:
Air Chief Marshal R. Brooke-Popham
Lieutenant-General Sir H. R. Pownall
Basissamenstelling:
Far East Air Force
Burma Command
Malaya Command
Hong Kong Garrison
Far East Fleet
Far East Land Forces
Australian Army Force
Far East Air Force

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India Command
Voorloper:
geen
Ontstaan:
?
Einde:
?
Opvolger:
geen
Bevelhebbers:
?
Basissamenstelling:
?

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Malaya Command
Voorloper:
geen
Ontstaan:
1924 (1e keer)
1945 (2e keer)
Einde:
1942 (1e keer)
1947 (2e keer)
Opvolger:
geen
Bevelhebbers:
Major-General Sir Theodore Fraser
Major-General Sir Casimir van Straubenzee
Major-General Harry Pritchard
Major-General Sir Louis Oldfield
Major-General Ernest Lewin
Major-General Sir William Dobbie
Lieutenant-General Sir Lionel Bond
Lieutenant-General Arthur Percival
Lieutenant-General Sir Miles Dempsey
Lieutenant-General Sir Frank Messervy
Lieutenant-General Sir Alexander Galloway
Basissamenstelling:
divers

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Malta Command
Voorloper:
geeb
Ontstaan:
1915
Einde:
1977
Opvolger:
geen
Bevelhebbers:
?
Basissamenstelling:
divers

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Middle East Command
Voorloper:
geen
Ontstaan:
juni 1939
Einde:
1946
Opvolger:
Middle East Land Forces
Bevelhebbers:
General Archibald Wavell
General Claude Auchinleck
General Harold Alexander
General Henry Wilson
General Sir Bernard Paget
General Sir Miles Dempsey
Basissamenstelling:
divers

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Palestine Command
Voorloper:
geen
Ontstaan:
februari 1922
Einde:
1948
Opvolger:
geen
Bevelhebbers:
Lieutenant-General Sir John Dill
Lieutenant-General Archibald Wavell
Lieutenant-General Robert Haining
Lieutenant-General Michael Barker
Lieutenant-General George Giffard
Lieutenant-General Philip Neame
General Sir Henry Maitland Wilson
Major-General Douglas McConnel
Lieutenant-General John D'Arcy
Lieutenant-General Sir Evelyn Barker
Lieutenant-General Gordon MacMillan
Basissamenstelling:
divers

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Persia and Iraq Command
Voorloper:
geen
Ontstaan:
september 1942
Einde:
1945
Opvolger:
geen
Bevelhebbers:
Lieutenant General Sir Maitland Wilson
Lieutenant General Sir Henry Pownall
Lieutenant General Sir Arthur Smith
Basissamenstelling:
Britse 10th Army

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South East Asia Command
Voorloper:
geen
Ontstaan:
augustus 1943
Einde:
1946
Opvolger:
geen
Bevelhebbers:
Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten
Basissamenstelling:
divers

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West Africa Command
Voorloper:
geen
Ontstaan:
7 juli 1940
Einde:
1956
Opvolger:
geen
Bevelhebbers:
Lieutenant General George Giffard
Lieutenant General Francis Nosworthy
Lieutenant General Brocas Burrows
Lieutenant General Noel Irwin
Lieutenant General Cameron Nicholson
Lieutenant General Lashmer Whistler
Lieutenant General Otway Herbert
Basissamenstelling:
divers


Royal Air Force Commands


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Air Command
Voorloper:
Strike Command
Personnel and Training Command
Ontstaan:
1 april 2007
Einde:
operationeel
Opvolger:
geen
Bevelhebbers:
Air Chief Marshal Sir Clive Loader
Air Chief Marshal Sir Christopher Moran
Air Chief Marshal Sir Simon Bryant
Basissamenstelling:
No. 1 Group
No. 2 Group
No. 11 Group
No. 22 (Training) Group
No. 38 Group

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Air Support Command
Voorloper:
Transport Command
Ontstaan:
1 augustus 1967
Einde:
1 september 1972
Opvolger:
Strike Command
Bevelhebbers:
Air Marshal Sir Thomas Prickett
Air Marshal Sir Lewis Hodges
Air Marshal Sir Harry Burton
Basissamenstelling:
?


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Army Cooperation Command
Voorloper:
No. 22 (Army Co-Operation) Group
Ontstaan:
1 december 1940
Einde:
31 maart 1943
Opvolger:
Second Tactical Air Force
Bevelhebbers:
Air Marshal Sir Arthur Barratt
Basissamenstelling:
No. 70 (Army Co-operation Training) Group
No. 32 Wing
No. 33 Wing
No. 34 Wing
No. 35 Wing
No. 36 Wing
No. 37 Wing
No. 38 Wing
RAF Northern Ireland

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Balloon Command
Voorloper:
No. 30 (Balloon Barrage) Group
Ontstaan:
1 november 1938
Einde:
5 februari 1945
Opvolger:
geen
Bevelhebbers:
Air Vice-Marshal Owen Tudor Boyd
Air Marshal Sir Leslie Gossage
Air Vice-Marshal W C C Gell
Air Commodore P L Lincoln
Basissamenstelling:
No. 1 Balloon Centre
No. 2 Balloon Centre
No. 3 Balloon Centre
No. 4 Balloon Centre
No. 30 Group
No. 31 Group
No. 32 Group
No. 34 Group

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Bomber Command
Voorloper:
geen
Ontstaan:
14 juli 1936
Einde:
1968
Opvolger:
Strike Command
Bevelhebbers:
Air Chief Marshal Sir John Steel
Air Chief Marshal Sir Edgar Ludlow-Hewitt
Air Marshal Sir Charles Portal
Air Marshal Sir Richard Peirse
Air Vice Marshal Jack Baldwin
Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Harris
Air Marshal Sir Norman Bottomley
Air Marshal Sir Hugh Saunders
Air Marshal Sir Aubrey Ellwood
Air Marshal Sir Hugh Lloyd
Air Marshal Sir George Mills
Air Marshal Sir Harry Broadhurst
Air Marshal Sir Kenneth Cross
Air Marshal Sir John Grandy
Air Marshal Sir Wallace Kyle
Basissamenstelling:
No. 1 Group
No. 2 Group
No. 3 Group
No. 4 Group
No. 5 Group
No. 6 Group
No. 8 (Pathfinder) Group
No. 26 Group
No. 91 Group
No. 92 Group
No. 93 Group
No. 100 Group

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Coastal Command
Voorloper:
geen
Ontstaan:
14 juli 1936
Einde:
27 november 1969
Opvolger:
Strike Command
Bevelhebbers:
Air Marshal Sir Arthur Longmore
Air Marshal Sir Philip Joubert de la Ferté
Air Marshal Sir Frederick Bowhill
Air Chief Marshal Sir Philip Joubert de la Ferté
Air Marshal Sir John Slessor
Air Chief Marshal Sir William Sholto Douglas
Air Marshal Sir Leonard Slatter
Air Marshal Sir John Baker
Air Marshal Sir Charles Steele
Air Marshal Sir Alick Stevens
Air Marshal Sir John Boothman
Air Marshal Sir Brian Reynolds
Air Marshal Sir Edward Chilton
Air Marshal Sir Anthony Selway
Air Marshal Sir Paul Holder
Air Marshal Sir John Lapsley
Basissamenstelling:
No. 15 (Reconnaissance) Group
No. 16 (Reconnaissance) Group
No. 17 (Training) Group
No. 18 (Reconnaissance) Group
No. 19 (Reconnaissance) Group
No. 106 (Photo Reconnaissance) Group
No. 200 (Coastal) Group

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Ferry Command
Voorloper:
Atlantic Ferry Service
Ontstaan:
20 juli 1941
Einde:
25 maart 1943
Opvolger:
Transport Command
Bevelhebbers:
Air Chief Marshal Sir Frederick Bowhill
Basissamenstelling:
?

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Fighter Command
Voorloper:
Air Defence of Great Britain (ADGB)
Ontstaan:
14 juli 1936
Einde:
30 april 1968
Opvolger:
Strike Command
Bevelhebbers:
Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Dowding
MRAF Sir Sholto Douglas
Air Chief Marshal Sir Trafford Leigh-Mallory
Air Chief Marshal Sir Roderic Hill
Air Chief Marshal Sir James Robb
Air Chief Marshal Sir William Elliot
Air Chief Marshal Sir Basil Embry
MRAF Sir Dermot Boyle
Air Chief Marshal Sir Hubert Patch
MRAF Sir Thomas Pike
Air Marshal Sir Hector McGregor
Air Marshal Sir Douglas Morris
Air Chief Marshal Sir Frederick Rosier
Basissamenstelling:
No. 9 Group
No. 10 Group
No. 11 Group
No. 12 Group
No. 13 Group
No. 14 Group
No. 38 (Airborne Forces) Group
No. 60 Group
Mo. 70 (Training) Group

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Flying Training Command
Voorloper:
Training Command
Ontstaan:
27 mei 1940
Einde:
1 juni 1968
Opvolger:
Training Command
Reserve Command
Bevelhebbers:
Air Marshal Sir Lawrence Pattinson
Air Marshal Sir William Welsh
Air Marshal Sir Philip Babington
Air Marshal Sir Arthur Coningham
Air Chief Marshal Sir Ralph Cochrane
Air Marshal Sir Hugh Walmsley
Air Marshal Sir Lawrence Pendred
Air Marshal Sir Richard Atcherley
Air Marshal Sir Hugh Constantine
Air Marshal Sir Augustus Walker
Air Marshal Sir Patrick Dunn
Air Marshal Sir John Davis
Basissamenstelling:
No. 21 Group
No. 23 Group
No. 25 Group
No. 29 Group
No. 50 Group
No. 51 Group
No. 54 Group

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Home Command
Voorloper:
Reserve Command
Ontstaan:
1 augustus 1950
Einde:
1 april 1959
Opvolger:
Flying Training Command
Bevelhebbers:
Air Marshal Sir Robert Foster
Air Marshal Sir Ronald Ivelaw-Chapman
Air Marshal Sir Harold Lydford
Air Marshal Sir Douglas Macfadyen
Basissamenstelling:
Home Command Examining Unit
No. 1 Home Command Gliding Centre
No. 2 Home Command Gliding Centre
Home Command Gliding Instructors School
Home Command Instrument Training Flight
Home Command Major Servicing Unit
Home Command Modified Officer Cadet Training Unit
Home Command Training Flight

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Joint Helicopter Command
Voorloper:
geen
Ontstaan:
5 oktober 1999
Einde:
operationeel
Opvolger:
geen
Bevelhebbers:
Air Vice-Marshal David Niven
Air Vice-Marshal Paul Luker
Major General Gary Coward
Rear Admiral Tony Johnstone-Burt
Air Vice-Marshal Carl Dixon
Major General Richard Felton
Rear Admiral Jonathan Pentreath
Air Vice-Marshal Nigel Colman[36]
Air Vice-Marshal Alastair Smith
Basissamenstelling:
Army Aviation Centre
47th Regiment Royal Artillery
1st Aviation Brigade
Commando Helicopter Force
Support Helicopter Force

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Logistics Command
Voorloper:
geen
Ontstaan:
1 april 1994
Einde:
31 oktober 1999
Opvolger:
Defence Logistics Organisation
Bevelhebbers:
Air Chief Marshal Sir Michael Alcock
Air Chief Marshal Sir John Allison
Air Marshal Sir Colin Terry
Air Marshal Malcolm Pledger
Air Vice-Marshal Graham Skinner
Basissamenstelling:
?

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Maintenance Command
Voorloper:
geen
Ontstaan:
1 april 1938
Einde:
31 augustus 1973
Opvolger:
Support Command
Bevelhebbers:
Air Marshal Sir John Bradley
Air Marshal Sir Grahame Donald
Air Marshal Sir Cyril Cooke
Air Marshal Sir Thomas Warne-Browne
Air Marshal Sir Leslie Harvey
Air Marshal Sir Richard Jordan
Air Marshal Sir Douglas Jackman
Air Marshal Sir Leslie Dalton-Morris
Air Marshal Sir Norman Coslett
Air Marshal Sir Kenneth Porter
Air Marshal Sir John Rowlands
Air Marshal Sir Reginald Harland
Basissamenstelling:
No. 40 Group
No. 41 Group
No. 42 Group
No. 43 Group

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Northern Ireland Command
Voorloper:
geen
Ontstaan:
1 augustus 1940
Einde:
31 maart 1950
Opvolger:
No. 67 Group
Bevelhebbers:
?
Basissamenstelling:
No. 15 Group
No. 61 Grop
No. 82 Group

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Personnel and Training Command
Voorloper:
geen
Ontstaan:
1994
Einde:
1 april 2007
Opvolger:
Air Command
Bevelhebbers:
Air Chief Marshal Sir Andrew Wilson
Air Marshal Sir David Cousins
Air Marshal Sir Anthony Bagnall
Air Marshal Sir John Day
Air Marshal Sir Christopher Coville
Air Marshal Sir Joe French
Air Marshal Barry Thornton
Basissamenstelling:
?

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Reserve Command
Voorloper:
geen
Ontstaan:
1 februari 1939 (1e keer)
1 mei 1946 (2e keer)
Einde:
27 mei 1940 (1e keer)
1 augustus 1950 (2e keer)
Opvolger:
Flying Training Command (1e keer)
Home Command (2e keer)
Bevelhebbers:
Air Marshal Sir Christopher Courtney
Air Chief Marshal Sir John Steel
Air Vice Marshal Sir William Welsh
Air Commodore E D H Davies (Temporary)
Air Marshal Sir Alan Lees
Air Marshal Sir Robert Foster
Basissamenstelling:
?

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Signals Command
Voorloper:
No. 90 (Signals) Group
Ontstaan:
3 november 1958
Einde:
1 januari 1969
Opvolger:
Strike Command
Bevelhebbers:
Air Vice-Marshal Sir Leslie Dalton-Morris
Air Vice-Marshal A Foord-Kelcey (temporary appointment)
Air Vice-Marshal Sir Walter Pretty
Air Vice-Marshal Sir Thomas Shirley
Air Vice-Marshal Sir Benjamin Ball
Basissamenstelling:
No. 90 Group

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Strike Command
Voorloper:
Bomber Command
Fighter Command
Personnel and Training Command
Ontstaan:
30 april 1968
Einde:
1 april 2007
Opvolger:
Air Command
Bevelhebbers:
Air Chief Marshal Sir Wallace Kyle
Air Chief Marshal Sir Denis Spotswood
Air Chief Marshal Sir Andrew Humphrey
Air Chief Marshal Sir Denis Smallwood
Air Chief Marshal Sir Nigel Maynard
Air Chief Marshal Sir David Evans
Air Chief Marshal Sir Keith Williamson
Air Chief Marshal Sir David Craig
Air Chief Marshal Sir Peter Harding
Air Chief Marshal Sir Patrick Hine
Air Chief Marshal Sir Michael Graydon
Air Chief Marshal Sir John Thomson
Air Chief Marshal Sir Richard Johns
Air Chief Marshal Sir William Wratten
Air Chief Marshal Sir John Allison
Air Chief Marshal Sir Peter Squire
Air Chief Marshal Sir Anthony Bagnall
Air Chief Marshal Sir John Day
Air Chief Marshal Sir Brian Burridge
Air Chief Marshal Sir Joe French
Basissamenstelling:
No. 1 Group
No. 2 Group
No. 3 Group
No. 11 Group
No. 18 Group
No. 38 Group
No. 46 Group
No. 90 Group
Royal Observer Group

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Support Command
Voorloper:
Maintenance Command
Ontstaan:
31 augustus 1973
Einde:
1994
Opvolger:
Personnel and Training Command
RAF Logistics Command
Bevelhebbers:
Air Marshal Sir Reginald Harland
Air Marshal Sir Rex Roe
Air Marshal Sir Keith Williamson
Air Marshal Sir John Gingell
Air Marshal Sir Michael Beavis
Air Marshal Sir David Harcourt-Smith
Air Marshal Sir John Sutton
Air Chief Marshal Sir Michael Graydon
Air Chief Marshal Sir John Thomson
Air Chief Marshal Sir John Willis
Basissamenstelling:
?

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Technical Training Command
Voorloper:
Training Command
Ontstaan:
27 mei 1940
Einde:
1 juni 1968
Opvolger:
Training Command
Bevelhebbers:
Air Marshal Sir William Welsh
Air Marshal Sir John Babington
Air Marshal Sir Arthur Barratt
Air Marshal Sir Ralph Sorley
Air Marshal Sir John Whitworth-Jones
Air Marshal Sir Victor Groom
Air Marshal Sir George Beamish
Air Marshal Sir Arthur McDonald
Air Marshal Sir Wallace Kyle
Air Marshal Sir Alfred Earle
Air Marshal Sir Donald Evans
Air Marshal Sir William Coles
Basissamenstelling:
No. 22 Group
No. 24 Group
No. 25 Group

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Training Command
Voorloper:
Inland Area (1e keer)
Flyng Training Command (2e keer)
Technical Training Command (2e keer)
Ontstaan:
1 mei 1936 (1e keer)
1 juni 1968 (2e keer)
Einde:
27 mei 1940 (1e keer)
13 juni 1977 (2e keer)
Opvolger:
Flyng Training Command (1e keer)
Technical Training Command (1e keer)
Support Command (2e keer)
Bevelhebbers:
Air Marshal Sir Charles Burnett
Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Longmore
Air Marshal Sir John Davis
Air Marshal Sir Leslie Mavor
Air Marshal Sir Neville Stack
Air Marshal Sir Rex Roe
Basissamenstelling:
No. 20 Group
No. 21 Group
No. 22 Group
No. 23 Group
No. 24 Group
No. 26 Group
No. 38 (Special Tactical Transport) Group

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Transport Command
Voorloper:
Ferry Command
Ontstaan:
25 maart 1943
Einde:
1 augustus 1967
Opvolger:
Air Support Command
Bevelhebbers:
Air Chief Marshal Sir Frederick Bowhill
Air Marshal Sir Ralph Cochrane
Air Marshal Sir Brian Baker
Air Marshal Sir Aubrey Ellwood
Air Vice Marshal Robert Blucke
Air Vice Marshal Sir Charles Guest
Air Vice Marshal Sir George Beamish
Air Marshal Sir Andrew McKee
Air Marshal Sir Denis Barnett
Air Marshal Sir Edmund Hudleston
Air Marshal Sir Kenneth Cross
Air Marshal Sir Thomas Prickett
Basissamenstelling:
No. 44 Goup
No. 45 Group
No. 46 Group
No. 216 Group
No. 229 Group
No. 114 Wing
No. 116 Wing


RAF Overseas Commands


geen insigne bekend

Aden Command
Voorloper:
geen
Ontstaan:
1928
Einde:
1936
Opvolger:
British Forces in Aden (1936)
Bevelhebbers:
Group Captain W. G. S. Mitchell
Group Captain C. T. MacLean
Group Captain O. T. Boyd
Group Captain C. F. A. Portal
Air Vice-Marshal E. L. Gossage
Basissamenstelling:
?

geen insigne bekend
Eastern Air Command
Voorloper:
?
Ontstaan:
?
Einde:
?
Opvolger:
?
Bevelhebbers:
?
Basissamenstelling:
?

geen insigne bekend
Far East Command
Voorloper:
geen
Ontstaan:
1933
Einde:
1938
Opvolger:
South Eat Asia Air Command
Bevelhebbers:
Air Vice Marshal John Tremayne Babington
Air Vice Marshal C. W. H. Pulford
Air Vice Marshal Paul Maltby
Basissamenstelling:
?

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Far East Air Command
Voorloper:
Far East Command
Air Command South East Asia
Ontstaan:
30 september 1946
Einde:
1 juni 1949
Opvolger:
Far East Air Force
Bevelhebbers:
Air Marshal Sir George Pirie
Air Marshal Sir Hugh Lloyd
Basissamenstelling:
No. 221 Group
No. 222 Group
No. 223 Group
No. 224 Group
No. 225 Group
No. 226 Group
No. 227 Group
No. 229 Group
No. 231 Group
Eastern Air Command


geen insigne bekend
Iraq Command
Voorloper:
Mesopotamian Group
Ontstaan:
1 oktober 1922
Einde:
23 november 1932
Opvolger:
British Forces in Iraq
Bevelhebbers:
Air Vice-Marshal J M Salmond
Air Vice-Marshal J F A Higgins
Air Vice-Marshal E L Ellington
Air Vice-Marshal H R M Brooke-Popham
Air Vice-Marshal E R Ludlow-Hewitt
Air Commodore C L Courtney
Air Vice-Marshal C S Burnett
Basissamenstelling:
?

geen insigne bekend
Mediterranean Air Command
Voorloper:
geen
Ontstaan:
18 februari 1943
Einde:
10 december 1943
Opvolger:
Mediterranean Allied Air Forces (MAAF)
Bevelhebbers:
Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder
Basissamenstelling:
No. 201 Group
No. 205 Group
Air HQ Western Desert

geen insigne bekend
Middle East Command
Voorloper:
RAF Middle East
Ontstaan:
29 december 1941
Einde:
1 augustus 1945
Opvolger:
RAF Mediterranean and Middle East
Bevelhebbers:
Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder
Air Chief Marshal Sir Sholto Douglas
Air Marshal Sir Keith Park
Air Marshal Sir Charles Medhurst
Basissamenstelling:
No. 201 Group
diversen

geen insigne bekend
South East Asia Air Command
Voorloper:
Far East Command
Ontstaan:
16 november 1943
Einde:
30 september 1946
Opvolger:
Far East Air Command
Bevelhebbers:
Air Chief Marshal Sir Richard Peirse
Air Marshal Sir Guy Garrod
Air Chief Marshal Sir Keith Park
Air Marshal Sir George Pirie
Basissamenstelling:
?


Royal Navy Commands

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Ook de Royal Navy kende een aantal zogenaamde Commands. Deze stonden in de volksmond bekend als bijvoorbeeld Rosyth Command, Nore Command, Portsmouth Command, Western Approaches Command, North Atlantic Command, South Atlantic Command, America & West Indies Command, enz. Formeel stonden deze bij de Royal Navy echter bekend als Commander-in-Chief en zullen dan ook aldaar worden behandeld.