 On 8 August 1921 , Mackinolty was commissioned as a flying officer in the newly formed Royal Australian Air Force ( RAAF ) . A member of the Stores and Accounting Branch , he commenced service with No. 1 Aircraft Depot at Point Cook in December . He was assigned to the staff of RAAF Headquarters , Melbourne , in 1924 . On 20 November that year , he married Eileen Moore at Christ Church , South Yarra ; the couple had a son and a daughter . In 1925 , Mackinolty was posted as Equipment Officer to No. 3 Squadron at the recently established RAAF Station Richmond , New South Wales . Promoted flight lieutenant , he was appointed Director of Transport and Equipment at RAAF Headquarters in 1929 , effectively making him the Air Force 's senior supply officer , a role he would occupy for the next twenty @-@ two years . His continuous tenure in essentially the one post was comparable to the RAAF 's other chief logistician , Squadron Leader ( later Air Vice Marshal ) Ellis Wackett , who served as its senior engineer for twenty @-@ four years , from 1935 to 1959 . 
