Air Marshal Sir Harold Thomas Lydford, KBE, CB, AFC (7 May 1898 – 20 September 1979) was a First World War pilot in the Royal Flying Corps and senior commander in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War and the post-war decade.

Lydford was commissioned into the Special Reserve of the Royal Flying Corps in 1917.

28 Group in 1944 and Air Officer Commanding British Forces Aden in March 1945.

[1] After the War he served as Commandant-General of the RAF Regiment, Air Officer Commanding No.

[1] In retirement he became a Director of Electro Mechanisms Limited[2] and Chairman of the Royal Air Forces Association.