Alan Davies (RAF officer)

Air Marshal Sir Alan Cyril Davies, KCB, CBE (31 March 1924 – 27 January 1998) was a Royal Air Force officer who served as Deputy Commander of RAF Strike Command in 1977.

Davies joined the Royal Air Force (RAF) in 1941 during the Second World War: he served in Coastal Command,[1] and was commissioned in 1943.

[2] Davies then became Assistant Chief of the Air Staff in 1972, Deputy Chief of Staff at Headquarters Allied Air Forces Central Europe in 1974 and Deputy Commander of RAF Strike Command in 1977.

[2] His final appointments were as Director of the International Military Staff at NATO in Brussels in 1978, Head of the RAF Support Area Economy Review Team in 1981 and Co-ordinator for Anglo-American Relations in 1984.

[2] In 1949 he married Julia Elisabeth Ghislaine Russell, who was born in Belgium; they had three sons (one of whom died).