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Adrian Cole (RAAF officer)

Adrian Lindley Trevor Cole
Three-quarters portrait of aviator with raised goggles in military uniform
Lieutenant Adrian Cole in Palestine, 1917
Nickname(s) "King"
Born (1895-06-19)19 June 1895
Glen Iris, Victoria
Died 14 February 1966(1966-02-14) (aged 70)
Melbourne, Victoria
Allegiance Australia
Service/branch Royal Australian Air Force
Years of service 1914–46
Rank Air Vice Marshal
Unit No. 1 Squadron AFC (1916–17)
No. 2 Squadron AFC (1917–18)
Commands held RAAF Station Laverton (1929–32)
RAAF Station Richmond (1936–38)
No. 2 Group (1939–40)
Southern Area Command (1940–41)
RAF Northern Ireland (1942–43)
North-Western Area Command (1943–44)
Battles/wars

World War I

World War II

Awards Commander of the Order of the British Empire
Distinguished Service Order
Military Cross
Distinguished Flying Cross
Other work Company director

World War I

World War II

Air Vice Marshal Adrian Lindley Trevor Cole, CBE, DSO, MC, DFC (19 June 1895 – 14 February 1966) was a senior commander in the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF). Joining the army at the outbreak of World War I, he transferred to the Australian Flying Corps in 1916 and flew with No. 1 Squadron in the Middle East and No. 2 Squadron on the Western Front. He became an ace, credited with victories over ten enemy aircraft, and earned the Military Cross and the Distinguished Flying Cross. In 1921, he was a founding member of the RAAF.

"King" Cole rose to the position of Air Member for Supply in 1933 and gained promotion to group captain in 1935. The following year he was appointed the first commanding officer of Headquarters RAAF Station Richmond. During World War II, he led North-Western Area Command in Darwin, Northern Territory, and held a series of overseas posts in North Africa, England, Northern Ireland, and Ceylon. As Forward Air Controller during the Dieppe Raid in 1942, he was wounded in action and awarded the Distinguished Service Order. Cole served on corporate boards of directors following his retirement from the RAAF in 1946. He died in 1966 at the age of seventy.


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