Joint Warfare Establishment
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The Joint Warfare Establishment was a unit of the British Military based between 1963 and 1979 at a former RAF base at Old Sarum. A report in the Flying Review in 1963 notes that School of Land Air Warfare 'has been such a great success that it is soon to enlarge the scope of its activity by amalgamating with the Amphibious Warfare School, at Poole, Dorset, to become the Joint Warfare Establishment.[1] According to an unofficial RAF website the JWE was 'Formed 31 Mar 1963' and was 'Disbanded 22 Jul 1976.'[2]
It was the home of British psyops training from at least 1970. In March 1979, according to Roger Faligot, the JWE moved to Latimer, Buckinghamsire 'near the National Defence College'[3]
People
Commandants
- 31 Mar 1963 - 2 July 1964 Air Vice-Marshall Cecil Thomas Weir[4]
- 3 Jul 1964 - ?[5]
- 15 Nov 1968 - 29 November 1970 Air Vice-Marshall P deL Le Cheminant[6]
- 30 Nov 1970 - 1973 Rear-Admiral Teddy Gueritz 'Commandant of the Joint Warfare Establishment, Old Sarum, before leaving the Navy in 1973.'[7] [8]
- 19 November 1974-76 Air Vice -Marshal Frederick Hazelwood 'His final appointment was as the commandant of the Joint Warfare Establishment at Old Sarum. He retired from the RAF in January 1977.'[9]
- 1976-79 Major-General Patrick Ovens[10]
- 1979-?? Brigadier G. D. J. R. Russell In March 1979 the JWE moved to Latimer, Buckinghamsire 'near the National Defence College'[11]
Notes
- ↑ BRITAIN'S WAR SCHOOL School of Land-Air Warfare at RAF Old Sarum assigned new and important role. Flying Review April 1963, accessed 15 June 2010
- ↑ Air of Authority - A History of RAF Organisation Other Establishments - Experimental and Administrative, accessed 15 June 2010
- ↑ Roger Faligot, Britain's Military Strategy in Ireland: the Kitson Experiment, Brandon/Zed 1983, p. 64
- ↑ Air of Authority - A History of RAF Organisation Other Establishments - Experimental and Administrative, accessed 15 June 2010
- ↑ Air of Authority - A History of RAF Organisation Other Establishments - Experimental and Administrative, accessed 15 June 2010
- ↑ Air of Authority - A History of RAF Organisation Other Establishments - Experimental and Administrative, accessed 15 June 2010
- ↑ Rear-Admiral Teddy Gueritz, Daily Telegraph, Obituaries, Published: 7:33PM GMT 06 Jan 2009
- ↑ Air of Authority - A History of RAF Organisation Other Establishments - Experimental and Administrative, accessed 15 June 2010
- ↑ Air Vice-Marshal Freddie Hazlewood, Daily Telegraph, Obituaries, Published: 12:01AM BST 30 Jul 2007
- ↑ Faligot appears to mistakenly list his surname as 'Owns': Roger Faligot, Britain's Military Strategy in Ireland: the Kitson Experiment, Brandon/Zed 1983, p. 64
- ↑ Roger Faligot, Britain's Military Strategy in Ireland: the Kitson Experiment, Brandon/Zed 1983, p. 64
