Peter Philpott (RAF officer)

Air Vice Marshal Peter Theodore Philpott, CB, CBE (20 March 1915 – 13 July 1988) was a senior Royal Air Force officer.

Philpott was commissioned into the Royal Air Force on 27 July 1935.

[1] He served in the Second World War in the Directorate of Operational Training and then as officer commanding, RAF Horsham St Faith.

[2] He went on to be Director of Joint Plans in 1960, senior member of the RAF Directing Staff at the Imperial Defence College in 1961 and Air Officer Commanding, No.

[3] After that he became Head of British Defence Liaison Staff in Canberra in 1965 and Director of Service Intelligence in 1968 before retiring in 1970.