Michael Alcock Explained

Honorific Prefix:Air Chief Marshal
Sir Michael Alcock
Honorific Suffix:GCB KBE FREng FIMechE FRAeS
Birth Date:11 July 1936
Allegiance:United Kingdom
Branch:Royal Air Force
Serviceyears:1959–96
Rank:Air Chief Marshal
Commands:Logistics Command (1994–96)
Awards:Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath
Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire
Laterwork:Aerospace consultant

Air Chief Marshal Sir Robert James Michael Alcock, [1] (born 11 July 1936),[2] usually referred to as Sir Michael Alcock, is a retired senior Royal Air Force commander and an aerospace consultant.

RAF career

Educated at Victoria College, Jersey,[3] Alcock was commissioned in the Technical Branch of the Royal Air Force in 1959.[4]

By the time of the Gulf War, Alcock was Air Officer Engineering at Headquarters Strike Command.[4] He was appointed the RAF's Chief Engineer in 1991,[5] and promoted to air chief marshal in 1993. The following year Alcock graduated from Cranfield University[6] before being appointed Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief the newly established Logistics Command on 1 April 1994. The role also carried with it a seat on the Air Force Board as the Air Member for Logistics and Alcock became the first non-aircrew officer to sit on the Air Force Board.[4] Additionally, Alcock continued to be designated as the RAF's Chief Engineer.[7] Alcock was succeeded by Sir John Allison on 8 March 1996.[8] He retired from the RAF on 25 June 1996, and subsequently worked as an aerospace consultant.[9]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: List of Fellows.
  2. http://www.burkes-peerage.net/FamilyHomepage.aspx?FID=135 Burke's Peerage
  3. http://www.anglo-chinese.com/school/VictoriaCollege.htm Victoria College
  4. http://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/research/documents/Journal%2035%20-%20Seminar%20-%20Supply.pdf Support for the RAF in the Twenty-First Century
  5. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/letters/6942522/Comparing-the-effects-of-the-snow-on-attempts-to-travel-to-work.html Chinook crash revisited
  6. http://www.cranfield.ac.uk/alumni/graduation/hongrads/hongrads1970-07.pdf Honorary Graduates
  7. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/audio_video/programmes/panorama/transcripts/transcript_12_07_99.txt Die by Wire
  8. http://www.rafweb.org/Cmd_H4.htm Air of Authority – A History of RAF Organisation – RAF Home Commands formed between 1958 – 2002
  9. https://web.archive.org/web/20121104095203/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-20527472.html Birthdays today