Air Chief Marshal Sir Walter Hugh Merton, GBE, KCB (29 August 1905 – 23 March 1986) was a senior Royal Air Force (RAF) commander during the Second World War.

After the war he held several senior RAF appointments before his retirement in 1963.

Born in Canada,[1] Merton joined the Royal Air Force as a cadet in 1924.

[2] He continued his war service as Senior Air Staff Officer at Headquarters 257 Wing and then in the Middle East.

[2] He was made Station Commander at RAF Luqa in 1943 and Assistant Commandant at the RAF War Staff College in April 1944 before becoming Director of Organisation at the Air Ministry in August 1944.