effect from 10 March 1955. Senior staff The following officers held senior posts in AA Command: General Officers Commanding-in-Chief Lieutenant-General Alan Brooke (1 April–28 July 1939; GOC AA Corps 15 July 1938 – 31 March 1939) Lieutenant-General Sir Frederick Pile (12 October 1939 – 14 April 1945) Lieutenant-General Sir William Green (15 April 1945 – 30 April 1946) Lieutenant-General Otto Lund (1 May 1946 – May 1948) Lieutenant-General Sir Ivor Thomas (May 1948 – 27 May 1950) Lieutenant-General Charles Loewen (28 May 1950 – 16 April 1953) Lieutenant-General Sir Maurice Chilton (17 April 1953 – 15 May 1955) Major-General, General Staff Major-General Thomas Newton (8 May 1939 – 31 December 1941) Major-General Robert Whittaker (1 January 1942 – 21 February 1944 Major-General Frank Lejeune (22 February 1944 – 22 May 1944) Major-General Stephen Lamplugh (19 June 1944 – 24 June 1945) Brigadier, General Staff Brigadier B. P. Hughes (1 October 1942 – 1943) Brigadier Stephen Lamplugh (25 June 1945 – 30 July 1946) Brigadier Geoffrey Thompson (1 July 1946 – 31 December 1946) Chief of Staff Brigadier Geoffrey Thompson (1 January 1947 – April 1948) Deputy Director, Auxiliary Territorial Service Controller V. P. Farrow (12 May 1942 – 14 October 1942) Controller The Hon. Lady M. Lawrence (15 October 1942 – 27 June 1943) Senior Controller Christian Fraser-Tytler (28 June 1943 – 1944/45) See also Balloon Command Bomber Command Fighter Command 7th Air Defence Group – current successor organisation to AA Command Army Air Defense Command (United States) - successive US organizations, named Army Antiaircraft Command 1950–1957 Notes References I. F. W. Beckett, Territorials: A Century of Service, TA100, 2008. Gen Sir Martin Farndale, History of the Royal Regiment of Artillery: The Years of Defeat: Europe and North Africa, 1939–1941, Woolwich: Royal Artillery Institution, 1988/London: Brasseys, 1996, . Norman E. H. Litchfield, The Territorial Artillery 1908–1988 (Their Lineage, Uniforms and Badges), Nottingham: Sherwood Press, 1992, . Sir Frederick Pile's despatch: 'The Anti-Aircraft Defence of the United Kingdom from 28 July 1939, to 15 April 1945' London Gazette 18 December 1947. Brig N. W. Routledge, History of the Royal Regiment of Artillery: Anti-Aircraft Artillery 1914–55, London: Royal Artillery Institution/Brassey's, 1994, . Peter Wykeham, Fighter Command: A Study of Air Defence, 1914–1960, accessed 30 May 2008. External links British Military History Generals of World War II Orders of Battle at Patriot Files Royal Artillery 1939–1945 Regiments.org Land Forces of Britain, the Empire