Edgar Ludlow-Hewitt

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Sir Edgar Ludlow-Hewitt
9 June 1886 – 15 August 1973
Allegiance	United Kingdom
Service/branch	Royal Air Force
Rank	Air Chief Marshal
Battles/wars	World War I, World War II

Air Chief Marshal Sir Edgar Rainey Ludlow-Hewitt GCB GBE CMG DSO MC (9 June 1886 – 15 August 1973) was a senior Royal Air Force commander.

Ludlow-Hewitt was originally commissioned into the Royal Irish Rifles, but transferred to the Royal Flying Corps before the First World War. During the war he served first as a pilot in No 1 Squadron Royal Flying Corps and then later as the Officer Commanding No 15 Squadron and No 3 Squadron on the Western Front.

In 1937 Ludlow-Hewitt was appointed Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief of Bomber Command. However Ludlow-Hewitt was replaced by Portal in April 1940 as he was not considered to be sufficiently ruthless to lead Bomber Command during the Second World War.

[edit] References

• Air of Authority - A History of RAF Organisation - Air Chf Mshl Ludlow-Hewitt

Military offices
Preceded by H R M Brooke-Popham	Commandant RAF Staff College, Andover 1926 – 1930	Succeeded by P B Joubert de la Ferté
Preceded by H R M Brooke-Popham	Air Officer Commanding Iraq Command 1930–1932	Succeeded by C L Courtney
Preceded by Sir John Steel	Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief Bomber Command 1937–1940	Succeeded by Sir Charles Portal
Preceded by Sir Leslie Gossage	Inspector-General of the RAF 1940–1945	Succeeded by Sir Arthur Barratt