Allan Hesketh

Air Vice Marshal Allan Hesketh, CB, CBE, DFC (5 July 1899 – 9 March 1973) was a senior Royal Air Force officer.

Hesketh was commissioned into the Royal Air Force on 13 September 1918 during the First World War.

150 Squadron in March 1939[2] and served in the Second World War as base commander of No.

[2] After the war he became Senior Air Staff Officer, No.

23 Group in September 1951[4] and Air Officer Commanding, Headquarters, RAF Flying Training Command in April 1952 before retiring in July 1954.