No. 14 Group RAF
{{Short description|Former Royal Air Force operations group}}
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|dates=1 April 1918– 19 May 1919
20 January 1940 – 22 June 1940
26/29 June 1940 – 15 July 1943
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|type= Royal Air Force group
|role= Anti-submarine (1918-1919)
Fighter cover for Scotland (1940-1943)
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RAF Fighter Command (1940-1943)
|garrison=Drumossie Hotel, Inverness (1940-1941)
Raigmore House, Inverness (1941-1943)
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|notable_commanders= Air Commodore Philip Fletcher Fullard {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=80%|sep=,|CBE|DSO|MC1|AFC}}
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No. 14 Group RAF (14 Gp) was the title of several Royal Air Force groups, including a group responsible for anti-submarine activity from 1918 to 1919 after being transferred from the Royal Naval Air Service; a fighter group formed from a wing in the British Expeditionary Force in 1940; and finally a fighter group covering Scotland from 1940 to 1943.
History
= First World War =
No. 14 Group RAF was first formed on 1 April 1918 by the re-designation of Milford Haven Anti-Submarine Group. On 8 May it was transferred to Midland Area, and it was disbanded on 19 May 1919.
= Second World War =
It was reformed as No. 14 (Fighter) Group on 20 January 1940 as part of the wartime expansion of the Royal Air Force when No. 60 Wing in the British Expeditionary Force was raised to group level under the command of World War I flying ace Group Captain Philip Fletcher Fullard. The Group was disbanded on 22 June.
Only three days later 14 Group was reformed in Fighter Command to provide cover for Scotland, and was then under the command of Air Vice-Marshal Malcolm Henderson from 20 July 1940 and throughout the Battle of Britain, before coming under the command of Air Vice-Marshal John D'Albiac from 10 February 1942. The Group was then under the command of Canadian flying ace Air Vice-Marshal Raymond Collishaw from 21 March 1942 until the Group was finally disbanded on 15 July 1943.{{cite web|title=Groups 10-19|url=http://www.rafweb.org/Organsation/Grp02.htm|work=Air of Authority - A History of RAF Organisation|accessdate=8 May 2013}}
Structure
May 1941
- No. 14 Group RAF{{sfn|Delve|1994|p=53}}
- Group Headquarters: Inverness
- RAF Castletown
- No. 17 Squadron RAF operated with Hawker Hurricane single-seat fighter aircraft
- No. 213 Squadron RAF operated with Hawker Hurricane single-seat fighter aircraft
- RAF Dyce
- No. 111 Squadron RAF (FIt) operated with Hawker Hurricane single-seat fighter aircraft
- RAF Elgin
- No. 232 Squadron RAF operated with Hawker Hurricane single-seat fighter aircraft
- RAF Montrose
- No. 111 Squadron RAF (FIt) operated with Hawker Hurricane single-seat fighter aircraft
- RAF Skaebrae
- No. 253 Squadron RAF operated with Hawker Hurricane single-seat fighter aircraft
- RAF Skitten
- No. 260 Squadron RAF operated with Hawker Hurricane single-seat fighter aircraft
- RAF Sumburgh
- No. 213 Squadron RAF (Flt) operated with Hawker Hurricane single-seat fighter aircraft
Air Officers Commanding
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| Date | Air Officer Commanding |
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| 1 April 1918 – 19 May 1919 | Lt.Col. Robert Cholerton Hayes, OBEAIR76/217/136ADM273/1/57Supplement to the Edinburgh Gazette, 6 Jan 1919, page 73. |
| 20 May 1919 – 19 January 1940 | disbanded |
| 20 Jan 1940 – 22 June 1940 | Group Captain Philip F. Fullard |
| 22 June 1940 – 25 June 1940 | disbanded |
| 26/29 June 1940 - 19 July 1940 | Group Captain Philip F. Fullard |
| 20 July 1940 – 9 February 1942 | Air Vice-Marshal Malcolm Henderson |
| 10 February 1942 – 20 March 1942 | Air Vice-Marshal John D'Albiac |
| 21 March 1942 – 15 July 1943 | Air Vice-Marshal Raymond Collishaw |
See also
References
= Citations =
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= Bibliography =
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- {{cite book |last1=Delve |first1=Ken |title=The Source Book of the RAF |year=1994 |publisher=Airlife Publishing Ltd |location= Shrewsbury, UK |isbn=1-85310-451-5 }}
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Category:Military units and formations established in 1918
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