Walter Cheshire

Air Chief Marshal Sir Walter Graemes Cheshire, (21 March 1907 – 10 December 1978) was a senior Royal Air Force intelligence officer during the Second World War, and a senior commander in the 1950s and early 1960s.

RAF career Educated at Downing College, Cambridge, Cheshire joined the Royal Air Force in 1926. He served in the Second World War as Chief Intelligence Officer at Headquarters RAF Bomber Command, as Air Attache in Moscow and as Chief Air Intelligence Officer at Headquarters Air Command South East Asia, before becoming Air Officer Commanding AHQ Indo China in October 1945. In 2021 Stuart Hadaway, RAF Historical Branch, gave an illustrated talk on 'Britain's Vietnam War: The RAF Over Indo-China 1945-1946' and this includes Cheshire's role.

After the war Cheshire was made Air Officer Commanding RAF Gibraltar and then Commandant of the RAF Staff College, Andover. his last roles were as Air Officer Commanding RAF Malta in 1959 and Air Member for Personnel in 1961 before retiring as an air chief marshal in 1965.