Air Vice-Marshal Sir Tom Ince Webb-Bowen, KCB, CMG, DL (17 January 1879 – 29 October 1956) was a senior commander in the Royal Air Force during the first half of the 20th century.
Tom Ince Webb-Bowen was born on 17 January 1879, the son of Thomas Ince Webb-Bowen (senior) who served as the Chief Constable of Pembrokeshire Police from 1 January 1879 to 1 December 1906.
Webb-Bowen was initially commissioned into a militia battalion of the Middlesex Regiment, later got a regular army commission into the Bedfordshire Regiment and was appointed the Adjutant of the Madras Volunteer Corps while serving in India.
[1] Finding himself unsuited to regimental life, Webb-Bowen learnt to fly in 1912.
[1] He was recalled during the Second World War to be Duty Air Commodore in the Operations Room at Headquarters Fighter Command.