{{Short description|Royal Air Force Air-Vice Marshal (1899-1973)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox military person |name=Allan Hesketh |image= |image_size= |alt= |caption= |nickname= |birth_date= 5 July 1899 |birth_place= |death_date= 9 March 1973 |death_place= |burial_place= |allegiance= United Kingdom |branch= Royal Air Force |service_years= 1918–1954 |rank= Air Vice Marshal |unit= |commands=No. 150 Squadron<br />No. 53 Base<br />No. 54 Base<br />No. 3 Group<br />No. 23 Group |battles= First World War<br />Second World War |awards= Companion of the Order of the Bath<br />Commander of the Order of the British Empire<br />Distinguished Flying Cross |relations= |other_work= }} Air Vice Marshal '''Allan Hesketh''', {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|sep=,|CB|CBE|DFC}} (5 July 1899 – 9 March 1973) was a senior Royal Air Force officer.
==RAF career== Hesketh was commissioned into the Royal Air Force on 13 September 1918 during the First World War.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=30905|page=11097|date=17 September 1918}}</ref> He became officer commanding, No. 150 Squadron in March 1939<ref name=air>{{cite web|url= https://www.rafweb.org/Biographies/Hesketh.htm|title=Air Vice Marshal A. Hesketh|publisher=Air of Authority - A History of RAF Organisation|accessdate=28 June 2020}}</ref> and served in the Second World War as base commander of No. 53 Base and then as base commander of No. 54 Base.<ref name=air/>
After the war he became Senior Air Staff Officer, No. 3 Group in December 1945, air attaché in Nanjing in October 1946 and Air Officer Commanding, No. 3 Group in December 1948.<ref>{{cite journal|url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03071844909424022?journalCode=rusi19|title=Air Notes|journal=Royal United Services Institution. Journal |year=1949 |volume=94 |issue=573 |pages=142–152 |doi=10.1080/03071844909424022 |accessdate=28 June 2020|url-access=subscription }}</ref> He went on to be Air Officer Commanding, No. 23 Group in September 1951<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gulabin.com/armynavy/pdf/Royal%20Air%20Force%20Senior%20Appointments.pdf|title=Senior RAF appointments|accessdate=28 June 2020}}</ref> and Air Officer Commanding, Headquarters, RAF Flying Training Command in April 1952 before retiring in July 1954.<ref name=air/>
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Hesketh, Allan}} Category:1899 births Category:1973 deaths Category:Royal Air Force air vice-marshals Category:Companions of the Order of the Bath Category:Commanders of the Order of the British Empire Category:Recipients of the Distinguished Flying Cross (United Kingdom)