Douglas Morris

Air Marshal Sir Douglas Griffith Morris, KCB, CBE, DSO, DFC (3 December 1908 – 26 March 1990) was a Royal Air Force officer who became Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief of Fighter Command.

For the American record executive, see Doug Morris. For the Indiana Supreme Court justice, see Douglas J. Morris.

Sir Douglas Morris
Douglas Morris (left) and Hugh Trenchard, 1st Viscount Trenchard in Grimbergen, Belgium 1944.
Born(1908-12-03)3 December 1908
Died26 March 1990(1990-03-26) (aged 81)
AllegianceUnited Kingdom
Service/branchRoyal Air Force
Years of service1930–66
RankAir Marshal
Commands heldFighter Command (1962–66)
Metropolitan Sector (1952)
Southern Sector (1950–52)
No. 132 Wing (1944–45)
RAF North Weald (1942–43)
No. 406 Squadron (1941–42)
Battles/warsSecond World War
AwardsKnight Commander of the Order of the Bath
Commander of the Order of the British Empire
Distinguished Service Order
Distinguished Flying Cross
Commander of the Order of St. Olav (Norway)
Commander of the Order of Orange-Nassau (Netherlands)

RAF career

Educated at St John's College in Johannesburg, Morris joined the Royal Air Force in 1930.[1] He served in the Second World War as Officer Commanding No. 406 Squadron and then as Station Commander RAF North Weald before being appointed Officer Commanding No. 132 Wing and finishing the war as Senior Air Service Officer at Headquarters No. 84 Group.[1]

He became Senior Air Service Officer at the Headquarters of the Second Tactical Air Force in 1955 and was then made Assistant Chief of the Air Staff (Air Defence) in 1957.[1] He was appointed Chief of Staff at Headquarters Allied Air Forces Central Europe in 1960 and Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief of RAF Fighter Command in 1962 in which capacity he visited India and Aden[2] before he retired in 1966.[1]

In 1967 he carried out a review of the Air Training Corps recommending that it be re-organised on a regional basis.[3]

References
  1. Air of Authority – A History of RAF Organisation – Air Marshal Sir Douglas Morris Archived 24 March 2011 at the Wayback Machine
  2. Sir Douglas in India Flight International, 14 November 1963
  3. Air Training Corps (Report) Hansard, 25 July 1968
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