Air Chief Marshal Sir Robert William George Freer, GBE, KCB, FRAeS, FRSA (1 September 1923 – 15 January 2012) was a Royal Air Force (RAF) officer who served as Deputy Commander of Strike Command from 1978 to 1979.
Educated at Gosport Grammar School, Freer joined the Royal Air Force during the Second World War and became a flying instructor.
92 Squadron in 1955,[1] and became Station Commander of RAF Seletar in Singapore in 1963 during the Indonesia–Malaysia confrontation.
[2] He was made deputy director of Defence Plans in 1966, Deputy Commandant of the RAF Staff College, Bracknell in 1969 and Senior Air Staff Officer at Headquarters Near East Air Force in 1971.
[1] His last appointment was as Commandant of the Royal College of Defence Studies in 1980 before he retired in 1982.