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Sir Alfred Guy Roland Garrod, (13 April 1891 – 3 January 1965) was a senior British

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officer.

RAF career

He was born the third eldest son of Herbert Baring Garrod, barrister-at-law and educated at

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and

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.Air of Authority – A History of RAF Organisation – Air Chief Marshal Sir Guy Garrod
/ref> Garrod was originally commissioned into

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of the

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in 1914 and only transferred to the

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in 1915.Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives
/ref> His younger brother Roland Perceval Garrod was killed in action the same year. Garrod was given the temporary rank of major in the newly formed Royal Air Force in April 1918. He joined the Directing Staff at the

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in 1923 and then became Chief Instructor at

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in 1928 before moving to RAF Headquarters in Iraq in 1931. He was made Deputy Director of Organisation at the

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in 1934 and Air Officer Commanding the Armament Group in 1937. Gruenther, Brann, Clark, Garrod cph

He served in the

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initially as Director of Equipment at the Air Ministry and then as Air Member for Training from 1940. He continued his war service as Deputy Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief, India from May 1943 and as Deputy Allied Air Commander-in-Chief at

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from October 1943. In November 1944 he temporarily stepped up to be Allied Air Commander-in-Chief when Air Chief Marshal Sir Trafford Leigh-Mallory, the nominated successor to the then incumbent Air Chief Marshal Sir Richard Peirse, was killed in an air crash on his way to take up the appointment. Garrod held this acting appointment until February 1945 when Air Chief Marshal Sir Keith Park took up the permanent appointment. In March 1945 Garrod was appointed RAF Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean and Middle East. After the war he was made Permanent RAF Representative on the Military Staff Committee of the United Nations and then Head of the RAF delegation to

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from 1946 until he retired in 1948.

Family

In 1918 he married Cicely Evelyn Bray. Following the death of his first wife in 1960, he married Doris Eleanor Baker in 1961.M. J. Dean, 'Garrod, Sir (Alfred) Guy Roland (1891–1965)', rev. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Sept 201
accessed 8 July 2011
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References

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