List of Royal Australian Air Force air marshals

Sir Richard Williams, the first officer of the Royal Australian Air Force to attain air marshal rank

The following is a list of Australians who have attained air marshal rank within the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF); that is, service personnel who have held the rank of air chief marshal (four-star rank), air marshal (three-star rank) or air vice-marshal (two-star rank). The Royal Australian Air Force was established in 1921 as a separate branch of the Australian military forces. The service was modelled after the Royal Air Force—formed three years earlier—and adopted the same ranking system.[1][2][3] Richard Williams, regarded as the "father" of the Royal Australian Air Force, was the service's first member to obtain air-officer rank on being promoted to air commodore (one-star rank) in 1927; he went on to become the first air vice-marshal (1935) and air marshal (1940).[4][5] In 1965, Sir Frederick Scherger became the first officer to be advanced to air chief marshal, one of only four members of the Royal Australian Air Force to obtain this rank as of February 2024.[6] A further twenty-five individuals have reached air marshal in the RAAF and 143 air vice-marshal; seven officers have retired with the honorary rank of air vice-marshal.[7][8]

  1. ^ Gillison 1962, p. 16
  2. ^ MacDougall 2007, p. 158
  3. ^ Newton 1996, p. 15
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference WilliamsAWM was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  5. ^ Cite error: The named reference WilliamsRAAF was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  6. ^ Cite error: The named reference ACMs was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  7. ^ "Air Marshals of the RAAF". Royal Australian Air Force Air Power Development Centre. Retrieved 14 July 2010.
  8. ^ "Hononary Air Vice-Marshals". Air Marshals of the RAAF. Royal Australian Air Force Air Power Development Centre. Retrieved 8 May 2013.