Clifford Wilcock

Group Captain Clifford Arthur Bowman Wilcock, OBE, AFC, FRAeS (28 April 1898 – 14 January 1962) was a British engineer, company director and politician who is noted for his contributions to civil and military aviation.

He alternated between home postings dealing with administration, and engineering work on RAF bases (including in Iraq until 1932).

From July 1935 he was on administrative duties at Ruislip, where he founded one of the first Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve Squadrons in 1937.

On the outbreak of the Second World War he offered his services and was made an Air Ministry civil servant (deputy director of Manning), and ultimately rose to Senior Personnel Officer for RAF Transport Command.

He was made a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society and also developed an interest in health, being a member of the Medical Research Council and a Governor of Westminster Hospital.