Neill Ogilvie-Forbes


Neill Charles Ogilvie-Forbes, was a senior Royal Air Force officer who served as Assistant Chief of the Air Staff from 1950 to 1952.

RAF career

Educated at the Oratory School and Trinity College, Cambridge, Neill Ogilvie-Forbes joined the Royal Air Force in 1922. He became a flight commander with No. 13 Squadron in April 1933. He served in the Second World War on secondment to the Royal Iraqi Air Force from January 1939, on the Air Staff at Headquarters No. 15 Group from April 1941 and as Deputy Director of Operations from February 1942.
After the war, Ogilvie-Forbes served as air attaché in Brussels from September 1945, as air attaché in Moscow from April 1948 and as Assistant Chief of the Air Staff at the Air Ministry from January 1950 before retiring in July 1952.