Brian Reynolds (RAF officer)


Sir Brian Vernon Reynolds, was a Royal Air Force officer who became Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief at RAF Coastal Command.

RAF career

Educated at St Olave's Grammar School, Reynolds served with the 28th London Regiment before joining the Royal Air Force in 1922. Having served as Adjutant at RAF Leuchars he was appointed Officer Commanding No. 43 Squadron in January 1936 before moving on to be Officer Commanding No. 801 Squadron in June 1936. He served in the Second World War as Senior Air Staff Officer at Headquarters No. 247 Group and then at No. 222 Group.
After the war he became Chief of Staff to the Commander British Forces in Hong Kong before being appointed Air Officer Commanding No. 64 Group in 1946, Air Officer Commanding RAF Northern Ireland in 1948 and Air Officer Commanding No. 67 Group in March 1950. After that he was made Air Officer Commanding No. 22 Group in July 1950, Air Officer Commanding AHQ Malta in 1952 and Deputy Commander-in-Chief at Allied Forces Mediterranean in 1953 before becoming Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief at RAF Coastal Command in 1956 and retiring in 1959.
In retirement he became Chairman of Malta Metropolitan Airlines.