Guy Garrod

Air Chief Marshal Sir Alfred Guy Roland Garrod, (13 April 1891 – 3 January 1965) was a senior British Royal Air Force officer.

RAF career He was born the third eldest son of Herbert Baring Garrod, barrister-at-law and educated at Bradfield College and University College, Oxford. Garrod was originally commissioned into The Leicestershire Regiment of the British Army in 1914 and only transferred to the Royal Flying Corps in 1915. His younger brother Roland Perceval Garrod was killed in action the same year. Garrod was given the temporary rank of major in the newly formed Royal Air Force in April 1918. In March 1945 Garrod was appointed RAF Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean and Middle East.