Nigel Maddox

Last updated

Nigel Maddox
LAAD 2019 - Reunioes Bilaterais (47491834792).jpg
Maddox (right)
Born Middlesex
AllegianceUnited Kingdom
Service/branch Royal Air Force
Years of service1973–2009
Rank Air Vice Marshal
Commands held Joint Services Command and Staff College (2005–07)
No. 2 Group (2002–05)
RAF Brüggen (1996–98)
No. 12 Squadron (1991–93)
Awards Commander of the Order of the British Empire

Air Vice Marshal Nigel David Alan Maddox, CBE is a retired senior officer of the Royal Air Force. He is the Senior Military Adviser to the UK Department for International Trade Defence & Security Exports. [1]

Military career

Maddox was born in Middlesex and later attended Clark’s Grammar School in Southend on Sea. He joined the Royal Air Force in 1973. [2] He rose steadily through the ranks in a variety of roles and in 1988 studied at the Royal Naval Staff College at Greenwich, after which he became personal staff officer to the Air Officer Commanding No. 18 Group at Northwood.

Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, Maddox held various staff jobs and undertook operational tours in Germany and the Falkland Islands. In 1998 he gained a posting to Northwood as Air Officer Maritime within Headquarters No. 3 Group and subsequently, as an air vice marshal, he served as Air Officer Commanding No. 2 Group from August 2002 to July 2005. [3] He then became Commandant of the Joint Services Command and Staff College, a post he held until September 2007. [4]

Maddox served as Chief of Staff (Operations) at RAF Air Command [5] until he retired from RAF service in July 2009 and was succeeded by Air Vice Marshal Richard Garwood. [6]

Reference list

  1. "UK DSO Directory 2016" (PDF). www.gov.uk. Retrieved 8 September 2016.
  2. "No. 45976". The London Gazette (Supplement). 15 May 1973. p. 6078.
  3. Irish Guards returned home BBC News, 15 April 2003
  4. Change of Command — Defence Academy of the United Kingdom
  5. UK Chapter of the AOC – Newsletter March 2008
  6. Royal Air Force Air Rank Appointments List 07/08 Archived 22 October 2012 at the Wayback Machine retrieved 16 October 2008
Military offices
Preceded by Station Commander RAF Brüggen
1996–1998
Succeeded by
Preceded by
Sir Glenn Torpy
Senior Royal Air Force Officer Germany
1996–1998
Succeeded by
Iain McNicoll
Preceded by Air Officer Commanding No. 2 Group
2002–2005
Succeeded by
Iain McNicoll
Preceded by Commandant of the Joint Services Command and Staff College
2005–2007
Succeeded by
Preceded by Chief of Staff (Operations) RAF Air Command
2007–2009
Succeeded by

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Frank Robert Miller</span> Canadian air marshal

Air Chief Marshal Frank Robert Miller was a Canadian airman, the last Chairman of the Chiefs of Staff Committee in 1964, the first chief of the Defence Staff from 1964 until 1966, and deputy minister of National Defence. He held a range of Air Force training appointments during World War II.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Richard Johns</span> Royal Air Force Air Chief Marshal (born 1939)

Air Chief Marshal Sir Richard Edward Johns, is a retired senior Royal Air Force commander. He was a fighter pilot in the 1960s, commanding officer of a squadron during the 1970s and a station commander in the 1980s. Johns served as one of three British directors of operations on the senior planning staff for Operation Granby in 1991 and then acted as a supporting commander for joint operations in the Balkans in 1994. As Chief of the Air Staff he advised the British Government on the air force aspects of the Strategic Defence Review and on NATO's air campaign in Kosovo.

Air Marshal Sir Harold John Maguire, was a senior Royal Air Force officer and public servant. He was Director-General of Intelligence at the Ministry of Defence from 1968 to 1972.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Glenn Torpy</span> Royal Air Force Air Chief Marshal (born 1953)

Air Chief Marshal Sir Glenn Lester Torpy, is a retired senior Royal Air Force (RAF) commander. He was a fast jet pilot in the late 1970s and 1980s, saw active service during the Gulf War and then went on to higher command. He was the air component commander on Operation Telic and served as Chief of the Air Staff, the professional head of the RAF, from 2006 to 2009. In that role Torpy hosted the RAF's biggest air display in two decades, and argued for consolidation of all British air power in the hands of the RAF.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">William Dickson (RAF officer)</span> Marshal of the Royal Air Force (1898-1987)

Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir William Forster Dickson, was a Royal Naval Air Service aviator during the First World War, a senior officer in the Royal Air Force during the inter-war years and a Royal Air Force commander during and after the Second World War. Dickson was Chief of the Air Staff in the mid-1950s, in which role his main preoccupation was the establishment of the V Force and the necessary supporting weapons, airfields and personnel. He also served as the first Chief of the Defence Staff in the late 1950s.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">John Grandy</span> Marshal of the Royal Air Force (1913–2004)

Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir John Grandy, was a senior officer in the Royal Air Force. He was the only officer who fought and commanded a squadron during the Battle of Britain to reach the post of Chief of the Air Staff. In the latter role he implemented the final stages of the RAF's withdrawal from the Persian Gulf and the Far East, oversaw the ordering and subsequent cancellation of the F-111 strike aircraft and handed over Britain's nuclear deterrent role to the Royal Navy.

Air Chief Marshal Sir Joseph Charles French,, often known as Sir Joe French, is a retired senior Royal Air Force officer who was the last Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief RAF Strike Command (2006–07).

Air Chief Marshal Sir Nigel Martin Maynard, was a senior Royal Air Force commander.

Air Chief Marshal Sir David Cousins KCB AFC BA is a British retired senior Royal Air Force (RAF) commander.

Air Chief Marshal Sir Anthony Wilkinson Heward, was a senior Royal Air Force (RAF) commander.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">No. 22 Group RAF</span> Royal Air Force operations group

No. 22 Group Royal Air Force is one of six groups currently active in the Royal Air Force (RAF), falling under the responsibility of Deputy Commander-in-Chief (Personnel) in Air Command. Its previous title up until 2018 was No. 22 (Training) Group. The group is responsible for RAF training policy and controlling the Royal Air Force College and the RAF's training stations. As such, it is the direct successor to Training Group. 22 Group provides training to all three service branches of the British Armed Forces; namely the Royal Air Force, the Royal Navy, and the British Army.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Alfred Earle</span> Royal Air Force Air Chief Marshal (1907–1990)

Air Chief Marshal Sir Alfred Earle, was a senior officer in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War who later served as Vice-Chief of the Defence Staff (1964–66), and Director General of British Defence Intelligence (1966–1968).

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Richard Garwood</span>

Air Marshal Sir Richard Frank Garwood, is a retired senior Royal Air Force officer.

Air Vice Marshal Sir Brian Gerald Tivy Stanbridge, was a senior Royal Air Force officer.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Barry North</span>

Air Marshal Sir Barry Mark North, is a retired senior Royal Air Force officer, who served as Deputy Commander (Personnel) at RAF Air Command. A helicopter pilot, North has held command appointments at all levels, notably No. 78 Squadron in the Falkland Islands, the Special Forces Flight as a squadron leader and the newly established No. 83 Expeditionary Air Group in the Middle East as an air commodore.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Michael Harwood (RAF officer)</span>

Air Vice Marshal Michael John Harwood, is a retired senior Royal Air Force officer who served as Defence Attaché and Head of the British Defence Staff – US in Washington, D.C. from 2008 to 2011.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Andrew Pulford</span>

Air Chief Marshal Sir Andrew Douglas Pulford, is a retired senior Royal Air Force (RAF) commander. A helicopter pilot with operational service in Northern Ireland, the Falklands War and Iraq War, Pulford commanded RAF Odiham and No. 2 Group, and served as Assistant Chief of Defence Staff Operations, before taking up the post of Deputy Commander-in-Chief Personnel at Air Command and Air Member for Personnel in 2010. He became Chief of the Air Staff on 31 July 2013, retiring from the Royal Air Force on 12 July 2016.

Air Chief Marshal Sir Joseph Alfred Gilbert, is a former Royal Air Force officer who served as Deputy Commander of Strike Command from 1984 to 1986.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Chris Luck</span> Senior Royal Air Force officer

Air Vice-Marshal Christopher James Luck is a British charity executive and retired Royal Air Force officer. He was Commandant of the Royal Air Force College Cranwell from 2013 to 2016, and Commandant of the Joint Services Command and Staff College from 2017 to 2019. Since 2019, he has been CEO of the Shaw Trust.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ian Duguid</span> Royal Air Force Air Vice-Marshal

Air Vice-Marshal Ian W. Duguid, is a retired senior Royal Air Force officer, whose final post was as Air Officer Commanding No. 1 Group RAF, headquartered at RAF High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire. Duguid was a Harrier pilot and Typhoon Force Commander before assuming the role of the Air Officer Commanding of No. 11 Group, which he served as from 2018 to November 2021.