Leslie William Cannon
Leslie William Cannon | |
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Nickname(s) | "Bull" |
Born | 9 April 1904 |
Died | 27 January 1986 Princess Mary Hospital, RAF Halton, Buckinghamshire | (aged 81)
Buried | |
Allegiance | United Kingdom |
Service/ | Royal Air Force |
Years of service | 1920–58 |
Rank | Air Vice-Marshal |
Commands held | Commander-in-Chief Royal Pakistan Air Force (1951–55) RAF Staff College, Andover (1948–49) No. 85 Group (1946–47) No. 2 Group (1946) No. 138 Wing (1943) RAF Watton (1942–43) No. 5 Squadron (1937–38) |
Battles/wars | North-West Frontier Second World War |
Awards | Companion of the Order of the Bath Commander of the Order of the British Empire Mentioned in dispatches (4) Silver Star (United States) |
Spouse(s) | Beryl Heyworth |
Air Vice-Marshal Leslie William Cannon, CB, CBE (9 April 1904 – 27 January 1986) was a senior Royal Air Force officer. He served as Commander-in-Chief of the Royal Pakistan Air Force from 1951 to 1955.
Military career
[edit]Cannon enlisted in the Royal Air Force (RAF) in the second entry of aircraft apprentices in 1920, and was commissioned as a pilot in 1925.
From 1948 until late 1949, Cannon was Assistant Commandant and then Commandant of the RAF Staff College, Andover.
He served as a Flight Commander in No. 60 Squadron RAF and then Officer Commanding No. 5 Squadron RAF on the North-West Frontier of India in the 1930s. Eventually attaining the rank of air vice-marshal (the first apprentice to achieve air rank), he served as Commander-in-Chief of the Royal Pakistan Air Force from 7 May 1951 to 19 June 1955.
References
[edit]- PAF s' Chief of Air Staffs
- Air of Authority – A History of RAF Organisation – Air Vice Marshal L W Cannon
- 1904 births
- 1986 deaths
- Chiefs of Air Staff, Pakistan
- Commanders of the Order of the British Empire
- Companions of the Order of the Bath
- Pakistan Air Force air marshals
- Recipients of the Silver Star
- Royal Air Force air marshals
- Royal Air Force personnel of World War II
- Trenchard Brats
- British expatriates in Pakistan
- Royal Air Force personnel stubs
- Pakistani military personnel stubs