Richard Peirse

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Air Chief Marshal Sir Richard Edmund Charles Peirse KCB DSO AFC (30 September 1892 - 5 August 1970), was a senior Royal Air Force commander.

In 1940, Peirse was made Air Officer Commander-in-Chief Bomber Command.

During early 1942, he was overall commander of Allied air forces in the American-British-Dutch-Australian Command, a short-lived, supreme command for all Allied forces in South East Asia.

In March 1942, Peirse was appointed commander of British Air Forces in India and on November 16, 1943 he was made Commander in Chief, Allied Air Command South-East Asia.

However his career came to an abrupt halt in 1944, when he eloped with the wife of General Sir Claude Auchinleck.

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• Air of Authority - A History of RAF Organisation - Air Chf Mshl Peirse

Military Offices
Preceded by Sir Charles Portal	Commander-in-Chief Bomber Command 1940–1942	Succeeded by J E A Baldwin