Patrick Playfair

This article is about the RAF officer. For the virologist Patrick Playfair Laidlaw, see Patrick Laidlaw.

Patrick Playfair
Patrick Playfair in the Royal Flying Corps during the First world War
Birth name	Patrick Henry Lyon Playfair
Nickname(s)	Pip
Born	22 November 1889
Died	23 November 1974 (aged 85) Newmarket, Suffolk, England
Allegiance	United Kingdom
Service/branch	Royal Air Force
Rank	Air Marshal
Commands held	Air Forces in India Advanced Air Striking Force No. 1 Group RAF No. 3 Group RAF Central Flying School No. 8 Squadron RFC
Battles/wars	First World War Second World War
Awards	Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire Companion of the Order of the Bath Commander of the Royal Victorian Order Military Cross Mention in Despatches (2)

Air Marshal Sir Patrick Henry Lyon Playfair KBE CB CVO MC RAF (22 November 1889 – 23 November 1974) was a commander in the Royal Flying Corps during the First World War and a senior commander in the Royal Air Force until his retirement during the Second World War.

In 1945 he published Warfare Today: How Modern Battles Are Planned and Fought on Land, at Sea, and in the Air,^[1] co-written by Gen. Sir John Frederick Charles Fuller (1878-1966) and Adm. Sir Reginald Bacon (1863-1947).

References

↑ read online

Air of Authority - A History of RAF Organisation - Air Marshal Sir Patrick Playfair
Playfair, Patrick and Jarvis, John (1979). "Pip" Playfair, a founding father of the RAF. Arthur H. Stockwell Ltd. ISBN 0-7223-1323-3.

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Military offices
Preceded by A J L Scott	Commandant of the Central Flying School 1919	Succeeded by C D Breese
Preceded by Sir John Higgins	Commander-in-Chief, Air Forces in India 1940–1942	Succeeded by Sir Richard Peirse

Aviation in World War I

People and aircraft	Commanders Aces Aircraft of the Entente Powers Aircraft of the Central Powers Zeppelins

Campaigns and battles	Strategic bombing German Cuxhaven Bombing of cities Aerial reconnaissance Fokker Scourge Flight over Vienna Bloody April Battles

Entente Powers air services	British air services Royal Flying Corps Royal Naval Air Service Royal Air Force Australian Flying Corps Canadian Air Force (1918–20) French Air Service Imperial Russian Air Service Royal Italian Air Corps United States Army Air Service Greek air services Army Air Service Naval Air Service

Central Powers air services	Imperial German Air Service Austro-Hungarian Imperial and Royal Aviation Troops Ottoman Aviation Squadrons Bulgarian Army Aeroplane Section

Authority control	WorldCat Identities VIAF: 35814814

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