Geoffrey Salmond

Sir Geoffrey Salmond
Air Vice Marshal Sir Geoffrey Salmond in 1920
Birth nameWilliam Geoffrey Hanson Salmond
Born(1878-08-19)19 August 1878
Hougham, Kent, England
Died27 April 1933(1933-04-27) (aged 54)
King Edward VII Hospital for Officers, St. Marylebone, London, England
AllegianceUnited Kingdom
Service / branchBritish Army (1898–18)
Royal Air Force (1918–33)
Years of service1898–1933
RankAir Chief Marshal
CommandsChief of the Air Staff (1933)
Air Defence of Great Britain (1931–33)
RAF India (1926–31)
Air Member for Supply and Research (1922–26)
RAF Middle East Area (1917–22)
Palestine Brigade RFC (1917)
Middle East Brigade RFC (1916–17)
5th Wing RFC (1915–16)
No. 1 Squadron RFC (1915)
Battles / warsSecond Boer War
First World War
AwardsKnight Commander of the Order of the Bath
Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George
Distinguished Service Order
Mentioned in Despatches (7)
Order of Saint Stanislaus, 3rd Class (Russia)
Grand Officer of the Order of the Nile (Egypt)
Grand Commander of the Order of the Redeemer (Greece)
RelationsMajor General Sir William Salmond (father)
Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir John Salmond (brother)
Gwen Salmond (sister)
Anne Baker (daughter)

Air Chief Marshal Sir William Geoffrey Hanson Salmond, KCB, KCMG, DSO (19 August 1878 – 27 April 1933) was a senior commander in the Royal Flying Corps during the First World War. Remaining in the Royal Air Force after the war, he held senior appointments in the Middle East, Great Britain and India. In late 1928 and early 1929, he directed the evacuation from Kabul of British embassy staff and others, by air.

In 1933, Salmond served as Chief of the Air Staff for only a matter of days before being taken ill and subsequently dying from cancer.