Sir John Frederick Willis (27 October 1937 – 9 January 2008) was a senior Royal Air Force officer.
[1] He was appointed deputy director of Air Staff Plans at the Ministry of Defence in 1979, Station Commander at RAF Akrotiri on Cyprus in 1982 and Director of Air Staff Briefing & Co-ordination at the Ministry of Defence in 1985.
[1] In retirement he was a member of the council of the University of Newcastle upon Tyne and a patron of the Second World War Experience Centre.
[3] In 1959, while living in London, Sir John met his wife Merrill, who was a nurse.
Sir John had fourteen grandchildren: Rebecca, Michael, Gregory, William, Joe, Ben, Finn, Ella, Myles, George, Sarah, Daisy, Pip and Heidi.