Education
Royal Air Force College Cranwell.
Royal Air Force College Cranwell.
Claude Pelly started his Air Force career at the Royal Air Force College Cranwell in 1920. After the War he became Commandant of the Aeroplane and Armament Experimental Establishment and then Assistant Chief of the Air Staff (Technical/Operational Requirements) before joining the Directing Staff at the Imperial Defence College in 1951. He went on to be Commander-in-Chief Royal Air Force Middle East Air Force in 1953 and Controller of Aircraft at the Ministry of Supply in 1956.
Pelly was appointed Aide-de-camp to the Queen in 1957 and retired as an air chief marshal in 1959.
Military Cross – 6 October 1933.
Military Cross – 6 October 1933 Commander of the Order of the British Empire (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) – 1 January 1943 Commander of the Royal Order of George I – 3 May 1946 Commander of the Order of the Bath (Central Bank) – 2 January 1950 Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath) – 1 January 1954 Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire (GBE) – 13 June 1959 Mentioned in Despatches – 1 January 1941, 11 June 1942, 14 January 1944 Air Aide-de-Camp to The Queen – 20 January 1957.
In retirement he was a Board Member of the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority from 1960 to 1964.
