Air Vice Marshal Sir Hazelton Robson Nicholl, KBE, CB (14 January 1882 – 14 August 1956) was a Royal Air Force officer who served as Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief RAF Middle East from 1938 to 1939.

Military career

Nicholl served as a private soldier in the London Scottish Volunteers in the Second Boer War and then transferred to the South Rhodesia Volunteers in 1903.[1] He was commissioned into the Royal Flying Corps Special Reserve in 1915 during the First World War and served as a pilot with No. 8 Squadron before instructing at the Central Flying School and then becoming Officer Commanding No. 84 Squadron and subsequently Officer Commanding No. 110 Squadron on the Western Front.[1]

After the war, Nicholl became a Staff Officer at the Air Ministry before being appointed Officer Commanding No. 70 Squadron in 1926.[1] He was made Deputy Director of Training and then Deputy Director of Personal Services before becoming Deputy Director of Manning at the Air Ministry in 1931.[1] He went on to be Station Commander at RAF Calshot in 1932, Air Officer Commanding No. 23 Group in 1933 and Air Officer Commanding Central Area in 1934.[1] After that he was made a Member of the Air Board of the Royal Australian Air Force in 1935, Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief RAF Middle East in 1938 and Air Officer for Administration at Headquarters Fighter Command in 1939, the post he held in the early years of the Second World War.[1] He retired in 1942.[1]

Later life

Nicholl retired to Scotland and became Controller of the RAF Benevolent Fund.[2]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g Air of Authority – A History of RAF Organisation – Air Vice-Marshal Sir Hazelton Nicholl
  2. ^ Correspondence Flight International, 31 August 1956
Military offices
Preceded by Air Member for Personnel (RAAF)
1935–1937 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Air Officer Commanding RAF Middle East
1938–1939 		Succeeded by
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