The Directorate of Military Aeronautics was the British

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department responsible for

military aviation Military aviation comprises military aircraft and other flying machines for the purposes of conducting or enabling aerial warfare, including national airlift ( air cargo) capacity to provide logistical supply to forces stationed in a war thea ...

before and during

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. It functions were subsumed into the

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when the

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was created in 1918. The Directorate was headed by a Director-General. The following officers held the post: * Sir David Henderson (1913-17) * J M Salmond (1917-18) * E L Ellington (1918) In 1917 the post of Deputy Director-General of Military Aeronautics was established. The following held that post: * W S Brancker (1917) * E L Ellington (1917-18)

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