Guy Garrod

Air Chief Marshal Sir Alfred Guy Roland Garrod, GBE, KCB, MC, DFC (13 April 1891 – 3 January 1965) was a senior British Royal Air Force officer.

[1] Garrod was originally commissioned into The Leicestershire Regiment of the British Army in 1914 and only transferred to the Royal Flying Corps in 1915.

[2] His younger brother Roland Perceval Garrod was killed in action the same year.

[3] Garrod was given the temporary rank of major in the newly formed Royal Air Force in April 1918.

[4] In March 1945 Garrod was appointed RAF Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean and Middle East.

From left to right, Alfred Gruenther , Donald W. Brann , Mark W. Clark , and Guy Garrod.