RAF Home Command

RAF Home Command was the Royal Air Force command that was responsible for the maintenance and training of reserve organisations from formation on 1 February 1939 as RAF Reserve Command with interruptions until it ceased to exist on 1 April 1959.

History
The Command was formed as RAF Reserve Command on 1 February 1939. It was absorbed into RAF Flying Training Command on 27 May 1940 but reformed again on 1 May 1946. It was then renamed RAF Home Command on 1 August 1950 and absorbed into RAF Flying Training Command again on 1 April 1959.

Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief
Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief included: RAF Reserve Command
 * 1 February 1939 Air Marshal Sir Christopher Courtney
 * 28 August 1939 Air Chief Marshal Sir John Steel
 * 22 April 1940 Air Vice Marshal Sir William Welsh
 * Note: The Command was not in existence from May 1940 to May 1946

RAF Home Command
 * 1 May 1946 Air Commodore E D H Davies (Temporary)
 * 20 May 1946 Air Marshal Sir Alan Lees
 * 1 October 1949 Air Marshal Sir Robert Foster
 * 1 August 1950 Air Marshal Sir Robert Foster
 * 31 Mar 1952 Air Marshal Sir Ronald Ivelaw-Chapman
 * 1 October 1952 Air Marshal Sir Harold Lydford
 * March 1956 Air Marshal Sir Douglas Macfadyen