Air Vice Marshal Peter Theodore Philpott, (20 March 1915 – 13 July 1988) was a senior

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officer.

RAF career

Philpott was commissioned into the Royal Air Force on 27 July 1935. He served in the

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in the Directorate of Operational Training and then as officer commanding,

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. After the war he became officer commanding,

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in 1952, Deputy Director of Policy in 1954 and Director of Policy (Air Staff) in 1958. He went on to be Director of Joint Plans in 1960, senior member of the RAF Directing Staff at the

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in 1961 and Air Officer Commanding, No. 23 Group in August 1963. After that he became Head of British Defence Liaison Staff in Canberra in 1965 and Director of Service Intelligence in 1968 before retiring in 1970.

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