Cuthbert MacLean

{{Infobox military person

| honorific_prefix = Air Vice Marshal

| name = Cuthbert MacLean

| honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|sep=,|CB|DSO|MC}}

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| birth_date = {{birth date|1886|10|18|df=yes}}

| death_date = {{death date and age|1969|02|25|1886|10|18|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Whanganui, New Zealand

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| allegiance = United Kingdom

| branch = British Army (1914–18)
Royal Air Force (1918–40)

| serviceyears = 1914–1940

| rank = Air Vice Marshal

| commands = No. 2 (Bomber) Group (1938–40)
Middle East Command (1934–38)
Aden Command (1929–31)
RAF Heliopolis (1928–29)
RAF Hinaidi (1925–28)
No. 5 Flying Training School (1923–25)
13th Wing (1917–18)
No. 11 Squadron (1917)

| battles = First World War
Second World War

| awards = Companion of the Order of the Bath
Distinguished Service Order
Military Cross
Mentioned in Despatches (2)
Knight of the Legion of Honour (France)

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Air Vice Marshal Cuthbert Trelawder MacLean, {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|sep=,|CB|DSO|MC}} (18 October 1886 – 25 February 1969) was a Royal Air Force officer who served as Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief at Middle East Command from 1934 to 1938.

RAF career

Educated at Wanganui Collegiate School[http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~sooty/wcollegiateK-Z.html Wanganui Collegiate School] and Auckland University College in New Zealand,[http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/1966/expatriates-biographies/32 Encyclopaedia of New Zealand 1966] MacLean served in the First World War in the 7th Royal Fusiliers[http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/wiki/1915_Aviators_Certificates_-_UK Grace's Guide] and was seconded to the Royal Flying Corps in 1915.[http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/locreg/MACLEAN.shtml Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives] He was awarded his aviator's certificate in October 1915 and successively served as a flight, squadron, wing and brigade commander.{{cite web|url=http://www.rafweb.org/Biographies/MacleanC.htm|title=Air Vice-Marshal C T MacLean|publisher=Air of Authority – A History of RAF Organisation|accessdate=9 August 2016}} He received the Distinguished Service Order for distinguished service in France.{{Cite web |url=http://patria.homestead.com/patriadsoMacLEAN.html |title=Pro Patria Project |access-date=13 February 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110712215048/http://patria.homestead.com/patriadsoMacLEAN.html |archive-date=12 July 2011 |url-status=dead }}

He went on to be Air Officer Commanding British Forces Aden in 1929 and Director of Postings at the Air Ministry in 1931 before becoming Air Officer Commanding Middle East Command in 1934. He was appointed Air Officer Commanding No. 2 (Bomber) Group in 1938 and served in that role in the early stages of the Second World War before retiring in 1940.

He was awarded the rank of Chevalier in the Légion d'honneur.