Alan Boxer

Air Vice Marshal Sir Alan Hunter Cachemaille Boxer, KCVO, CB, DSO, DFC (1 December 1916 – 26 April 1998) was a senior Royal Air Force officer.

Boxer was born in Hastings, New Zealand, on 1 December 1916,[1] and was educated at Nelson College from 1927 to 1935.

[2] Boxer joined the Royal Air Force in January 1939 and saw service during the Second World War as a pilot with No.

[4] He continued his war service on the staff in the Directorate of Intelligence at the Air Ministry from September 1943 and then on the staff at Headquarters RAF Bomber Command from February 1945.

1 Group in 1963, Senior Air Staff Officer at Headquarters RAF Bomber Command in 1965 and Defence Services Secretary in 1967 before retiring in 1970.