{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2022}} {{Infobox military person |name= Sir Brian Stanbridge |image= |image_size= |alt= |caption= |nickname= |birth_date= {{birth date|1924|07|06|df=yes}} |birth_place= |death_date= {{death date and age|2003|02|12|1924|07|06|df=yes}} |death_place= |burial_place= |allegiance= United Kingdom |branch= Royal Air Force |service_years= 1942–1979 |rank= Air vice-marshal |service_number= |unit= |commands= |battles= Second World War |awards= Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order<br/>Commander of the Order of the British Empire<br/>Air Force Cross<br/>King's Commendation for Valuable Service in the Air |relations= |other_work= }} Air Vice Marshal '''Sir Brian Gerald Tivy Stanbridge''', {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|sep=,|KCVO|CBE|AFC}} (6 July 1924 – 12 February 2003) was a senior Royal Air Force officer.
==RAF career== Stanbridge joined the Royal Air Force in 1942 and saw action in the Second World War as a pilot with No. 31 Squadron flying Dakotas on supply-dropping missions over Burma.<ref name=air>[http://www.rafweb.org/Biographies/Stanbridge.htm Air of Authority – A History of RAF Organisation – Air Vice-Marshal Sir Brian Stanbridge]</ref>
Stanbridge became a pilot in the Queen's Flight in 1954, serving as flying instructor to the Duke of Edinburgh.<ref name=air/> After attending the Royal Naval Staff College in 1958, he became Personal Staff Officer to the Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Coastal Command.<ref name=air/> He went on to be Wing Commander responsible for Flying at RAF St Mawgan in 1960 and, after attending the Joint Services Staff College in 1962, he joined the Directing Staff at the Staff College, Camberley at the end of the year.<ref name=air/> He transferred to the staff of the NATO Standing Group in Washington D. C. in 1966, became RAF Director at the Joint Anti-Submarine School at RAF Aldergrove later that year and was appointed Group Captain responsible for Operations at Headquarters RAF Coastal Command in 1968.<ref name=air/> He went on to be Air Commodore responsible for Operations and Training at Headquarters No. 18 Group in 1969, Secretary of the Chiefs of Staff Committee in 1971 and Assistant Commandant of the RAF Staff College in 1973.<ref name=air/> His last appointment was as Defence Services Secretary from 1975 until he retired in 1979.<ref name=air/>
==Later life== In retirement Stanbridge was Director-General of the Air Transport User's Committee.<ref name=air/> He was also President of the Royal Air Force Gliding & Soaring Association.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.raf.mod.uk/rafgliding/gsa/trophies.cfm |title=Service Gliding Awards |access-date=14 October 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121021112552/http://www.raf.mod.uk/rafgliding/gsa/trophies.cfm |archive-date=21 October 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
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{{s-start}} {{s-mil}} {{s-bef|before=Sir Ronald Forrest}} {{s-ttl|title={{nowrap|Defence Services Secretary}}|years=1975–1979}} {{s-aft|after=Sir Leslie Townsend}} {{s-end}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Stanbridge, Brian Gerald Tivy}} Category:1924 births Category:2003 deaths Category:Commanders of the Order of the British Empire Category:Knights Commander of the Royal Victorian Order Category:Recipients of the Air Force Cross (United Kingdom) Category:Recipients of the Commendation for Valuable Service in the Air Category:Royal Air Force air vice-marshals Category:Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve personnel of World War II