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Anthony Skingsley
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Air Chief Marshal Sir Anthony Gerald Skingsley, GBE, KCB (19 October 1933 – 15 January 2019) was a senior Royal Air Force commander.
Key Information
RAF career
[edit]Educated at St Bartholomew's School, Newbury, Berkshire[4] and St Catharine's College, Cambridge, Skingsley joined the Royal Air Force in 1955.[5] He became officer commanding No. 214 Squadron in 1972,[6] Station Commander at RAF Laarbruch in 1974[6] and Assistant Chief of Staff (Air Offensive) at Headquarters Second Tactical Air Force in 1977[6] before becoming Director of Air Plans at the Ministry of Defence in 1979.[5]
He went on to be Assistant Chief of Staff (Plans and Policy) at SHAPE in 1980, Commandant of the RAF Staff College, Bracknell, in 1983 and Assistant Chief of the Air Staff in 1985.[5] He was then Air Member for Personnel from 1986, Commander-in-Chief of RAF Germany and Second Tactical Air Force from 1987 and Deputy Commander-in-Chief AFCENT from 1989 before retiring in 1992.[5]
Personal life
[edit]In 1957 Skingsley married Lilwen Dixon; they had two sons and one daughter.[5] He died on 15 January 2019, aged 85.[6]
References
[edit]- ^ "No. 52767". The London Gazette (Supplement). 30 December 1991. p. 7.
- ^ "No. 50551". The London Gazette (Supplement). 13 June 1986. p. 2.
- ^ "No. 44484". The London Gazette (Supplement). 1 January 1968. p. 33.
- ^ Burke's Peerage Archived 2012-03-27 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ a b c d e Debrett's People of Today 1994
- ^ a b c d "Air Chief Marshal Sir Anthony Skingsley, RAF pilot who became an influential figure in Nato – obituary". The Daily Telegraph. 17 January 2019. Retrieved 18 January 2019.