co-operation operations and illicit immigration patrols. Later, it formed a composite squadron of Austers and helicopters for army co-operation and air/sea rescue, a transport squadron of Doves and Herons, and two fighter squadrons with jet aircraft. Bladon was promoted to the acting rank of air commodore on 1 October 1956. He relinquished command of the RCyAF on 8 October 1958. Bladon retired from the RAF, retaining the rank of air commodore, on 22 February 1959. On 13 June he was made a Companion of the Order of the Bath in the 1959 Birthday Honours. Bladon died in the Forbes Fraser Hospital, Bath, Somerset, on 11 October 1967. Personal life Bladon married Muriel Clibbens (1908–1977) in Hampstead in 1937, and they had one son. References 1899 births 1967 deaths People from Burton upon Trent Royal Navy officers Royal Naval Air Service aviators Royal Naval Air Service personnel of World War I Royal Air Force personnel of World War I Royal Air Force personnel of World War II Royal Air Force air commodores Sri Lanka Air Force air commodores Commanders of the Sri Lanka Air Force Companions of the Order of the Bath Military personnel from Staffordshire Commanders of the Order of the British Empire