D'Arcy Power (RAF officer)

Air Vice-Marshal D'Arcy Power CBE MC (2 June 1889 – 26 December 1958) was a British surgeon and Royal Air Force officer.

He was the son of Sir D'Arcy Power, also a surgeon.

[1][2] Power followed his father into part-time service in the RAMC in 1911,[3] and during the First World War became a captain and won the Military Cross.

[4] He transferred to the Medical Branch of the Royal Air Force on the formation of the new service on 1 April 1918[5]—taking a permanent commission as a flight lieutenant in 1920[6]—and ultimately reaching the rank of acting air vice marshal by 1945 when he was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire.

[7][8] Power was a Freemason, and served as Master of the Lodge of Assistance No 2773 (London) from 1949 to 1950.