Patrick Playfair

{{Short description|Royal Air Force Air Marshal (1889-1974)}} {{about|the RAF officer|the virologist Patrick Playfair Laidlaw|Patrick Laidlaw}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2021}} {{Infobox military person |name= Sir Patrick Playfair |image= The British Expeditionary Force (bef) in France 1939-1940 C76.jpg |image_size= |alt= |caption= Air Vice Marshal Patrick Playfair, commander of the Advanced Air Striking Force |nickname= Pip |birth_date= {{birth date|1889|11|22|df=yes}} |birth_place= |death_date= {{death date and age|1974|11|23|1889|11|22|df=yes}} |death_place= Newmarket, Suffolk, England |burial_place= |allegiance= United Kingdom |branch= British Army (1910–1918) Royal Air Force (1918–1942) |service_years= 1910–1942 |rank= Air Marshal |service_number= |unit= |commands= Air Forces in India (1940–1942) Advanced Air Striking Force (1939–1940) No. 1 Group RAF (1938–1999) No. 3 Group RAF (1936–1938) Western Area (1933–1936) No. 23 Group RAF (1932–1933) RAF Transjordan and Palestine (1928–1929) RAF Leuchars (1922–1925) No. 1 Flying Training School RAF (1919–1922) Central Flying School (1919) No. 13 Wing RFC (1916–1918) No. 8 Squadron RFC (1916) |battles= First World War Second World War |awards= Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire Companion of the Order of the Bath Commander of the Royal Victorian Order Military Cross Mentioned in Despatches (2) Order of Saint Stanislaus, 3rd Class with Swords (Russia) Distinguished Service Medal (United States) Knight of the Legion of Honour (France) |relations= |other_work= }} Air Marshal '''Sir Patrick Henry Lyon Playfair''', {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|sep=,|KBE|CB|CVO|MC}} (22 November 1889 – 23 November 1974) was a commander in the Royal Flying Corps during the First World War and a senior commander in the Royal Air Force until his retirement during the Second World War.

thumb|Lieutenant Playfair (back row, 3rd from left) with other officers of the RFC in 1913

In 1945 Playfair published ''Warfare Today: How Modern Battles Are Planned and Fought on Land, at Sea, and in the Air'',<ref>[http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/006194086?type%5B%5D=author&lookfor%5B%5D=%22Fuller%2C%20J.%20F.%20C.%201878-1966.%22 read online]</ref> co-written by Major General J. F. C. Fuller and Admiral Sir Reginald Bacon.

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==External links== * [http://www.rafweb.org/Biographies/Playfair.htm Air of Authority – A History of RAF Organisation – Air Marshal Sir Patrick Playfair]

==Further reading== {{Commons category|Patrick Playfair}} * {{cite book |editor-last1=Bacon |editor-first1=Reginald |editor-last2=Fuller |editor-first2=J. F. C. |editor-last3=Playfair |editor-first3=Patrick |title=Warfare Today: How Modern Battles Are Planned and Fought on Land, at Sea, and in the Air |year=1944 |publisher=Odhams |location=London |oclc=2758661}} * {{cite book |last1=Playfair |first1=Patrick |last2=Jarvis |first2=John |year=1979 |title="Pip" Playfair, A Founding Father of the RAF |publisher=Arthur H. Stockwell Ltd |location=Ilfracombe |isbn=0-7223-1323-3}}.

{{s-start}} {{s-mil}} |- {{s-bef|before=Alan Scott}} {{s-ttl|title=Commandant of the Central Flying School|years=1919}} {{s-aft|after=Charles Breese}} |- {{s-bef|before=Sir John Higgins}} {{s-ttl|title=Commander-in-Chief, Air Forces in India |years=1940–1942}} {{s-aft|after=Sir Richard Peirse}} {{s-end}}

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