{{Short description|Royal Air Force Air Chief Marshal (1920-2001)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2022}} {{Infobox military person |name= Sir Ruthven Wade |image= |caption= |nickname= |birth_date= {{birth date|df=yes|1920|07|15}} |death_date= {{Death date and age|df=yes|2001|09|24|1920|07|15}} |birth_place= |death_place= |allegiance= United Kingdom |branch= Royal Air Force |service_years= 1938–78 |rank= Air chief marshal |commands= Vice-Chief of the Air Staff (1973–76)<br/>No. 1 Group (1968–71)<br/>RAF Gaydon (1962–65)<br/>No. 39 Squadron (1959–60) |battles= Second World War |awards= Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath<br/>Distinguished Flying Cross |relations= |other_work= }} Air Chief Marshal '''Sir Ruthven Lowry "Gerry" Wade''', {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|sep=,|KCB|DFC}} (15 July 1920 – 24 September 2001) was a senior Royal Air Force officer who served as Vice-Chief of the Air Staff from 1973 to 1976.
==RAF career== Educated at Cheltenham College, Wade joined the Royal Air Force in 1938 and served in the Second World War.<ref name=air>[http://www.rafweb.org/Biographies/Wade_RL.htm Air Chief Marshal Sir Ruthven Wade]</ref> After the war, he became Officer Commanding No. 39 Squadron and then Station Commander at RAF Gaydon.<ref name=air/> He was appointed Director of Operations – Bomber and Reconnaissance in 1966, Air Executive to Deputy for Nuclear Affairs at SHAPE in 1967, and Air Officer Commanding No. 1 Group in 1968.<ref name=air/> He went on to be Deputy Commander-in-Chief at RAF Germany in 1971, Assistant Chief of the Air Staff (Operations) in January 1973, and Vice-Chief of the Air Staff in November 1973.<ref name=air/> His last appointment was as Chief of Personnel and Logistics in 1976 before he retired in 1978.<ref name=air/>
==Family== In 1945 he married Denise Davis; they had a son.<ref>[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1380187/Air-Chief-Marshal-Sir-Ruthven-Wade.html Obituary: Air Chief Marshal Sir Ruthven Wade] Daily Telegraph, 3 January 2002</ref>
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Wade, Ruthven}} Category:1920 births Category:2001 deaths Category:People educated at Cheltenham College Category:Royal Air Force air chief marshals Category:Knights Commander of the Order of the Bath Category:Recipients of the Distinguished Flying Cross (United Kingdom)