Alick Foord-Kelcey
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Alick Foord-Kelcey
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| Born | 6 April 1913 Canada |
| Died | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. |
| Allegiance |  United Kingdom |
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 Royal Air Force |
| Years of service | 1934–1964 |
| Rank | Air Vice Marshal |
| Commands held | Assistant Chief of the Air Staff (Intelligence) (1961–64) Signals Command (1961) No. 11 Group (1959–61) RAF Stradishall (1951–54) |
| Battles/wars | Second World War |
| Awards | Commander of the Order of the British Empire Air Force Cross |
Air Vice Marshal Alick Foord-Kelcey CBE, AFC, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , (6 April 1913 – 26 October 1973) was a Royal Air Force (RAF) officer who served as Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief at Signals Command in 1961.
RAF career
Foord-Kelcey was born in Canada, the son of William Foord-Kelcey, a lawyer, and his wife Irene Marion Ethel Payne. His father was killed in the First World War in 1918 and his mother, who was a sculptor, took her sons to England in 1923.[1][2] He was educated at The King's School, Canterbury and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge where he joined the Cambridge University Air Squadron and was then commissioned in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve in 1934 before joining the Royal Air Force as a cadet in 1935.[3] He served in the Second World War on the Air Staff at Headquarters British Forces in Aden and as a pilot and instructor in the Western Desert before joining the Directorate of Plans at the Air Ministry.[3] and later a member of the Joint Planning Staff at the Cabinet War Offices.
After the war he became Station Commander at RAF Stradishall and then Senior Air Staff Officer at Headquarters No. 12 (Fighter) Group before joining the staff on the British Joint Staffs Mission to Washington D. C.[3] He was appointed Assistant Chief of Staff (Operations) at Headquarters Allied Air Forces Central Europe in 1955, Air Officer Commanding No. 11 Group in 1959 and Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief at Signals Command in a temporary basis for three months in 1961 before becoming Assistant Chief of the Air Staff (Intelligence) in 1961 and retiring in 1964.[3]
In retirement he was Deputy Director of the Foreign Office Arms Control and Disarmament Research Unit and then Executive Director of the Federation of World Health Foundations in Geneva.[3]
He was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the New Year Honours List in 1956.[4]
References
- ↑ Irene Foord-Kelscey Sculptor and painter
- ↑ Jim Foord-Kelcey
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Air of Authority – A History of RAF Organisation – Air Vice-Marshal A Foord-Kelcey
- ↑ Service Aviation Flight International, 6 January 1956
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| Preceded by | Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief Signals Command March 1961 – June 1961 |
Succeeded by Sir Walter Pretty |
| Preceded by | Assistant Chief of the Air Staff (Intelligence) 1961–1964 |
Succeeded by Harold Maguire |
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- Use dmy dates from April 2012
- 1913 births
- 1973 deaths
- People educated at The King's School, Canterbury
- Alumni of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
- Royal Air Force air marshals
- Royal Air Force personnel of World War II
- Commanders of the Order of the British Empire
- Recipients of the Air Force Cross (United Kingdom)
- Heads of RAF Intelligence
