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Sir Hubert Leonard Patch, (16 December 1904 – 18 November 1987) was a senior

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commander.

RAF career

Patch joined the Royal Air Force as a flight cadet in 1923 and served in the

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.''Air of Authority – A History of RAF Organisation'' biography of Air Chief Marshal Sir Hubert Patch
/ref> After the war he became Director of Armament Requirements and then Air Officer Commanding No. 44 Group in 1946. He went on to be Commandant of the

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in 1948, Air Officer for Administration at Headquarters Far East Air Force in 1951 and Senior Air Staff Officer, Far East Air Force in 1952. After that he was made Air Officer Commanding No. 11 Group in 1953, Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief of Fighter Command in January 1956 and Commander-in-Chief of the RAF Middle East Air Force in September 1956. His final appointments were as Air Member for Personnel in April 1959 and as Commander, British Forces Arabian Peninsula in September 1959, where he established a unified tri-service command in

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,Arabian Peninsula Command
Flight International, 9 October 1959 before he retired in May 1961. From 1961 to 1963 he was the BAC Representative to NATO Countries.

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