Air Marshal Sir John Rene Whitley, KBE, CB, DSO, AFC & Bar (7 September 1905 – 26 December 1997) was a senior commander in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War and also in the post-war years.
[1] While serving in India, he was awarded the Air Force Cross for relief flights after the 1935 Quetta earthquake.
Landing by parachute in Northern France, with the help of the French Resistance he escaped through the Basque country to Spain.
[1] After the war he served as Assistant Air Officer Administration at Headquarters Air Command South East Asia and then as Station Commander at RAF Karachi.
1 Group in 1953, Air Member for Personnel in 1957 and Inspector-General of the RAF in 1959 before retiring in 1962.