Background
Harold Maguire was born in Kilkishen in County Clare in Ireland.
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Harold Maguire
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Trinity College.
Career
Educated at Wesley College, Dublin and Trinity College Dublin, Maguire joined the Royal Air Force in 1933. He served in World World War II as Officer Commanding Number. 229 Squadron and then as Officer Commanding Number.
226 Wing based in Sumatra.
He was awarded the Defence Science Organisation in 1946 for the gallant example he had set to his fellow captives while he was a Prisoner of War during the Japanese invasions of Sumatra and Java in 1942. After the War he became Station Commander at Royal Air Force Linton-on-Ouse and then Group Captain, Operations at Royal Air Force Fighter Command.
He was appointed Station Commander at Royal Air Force Odiham in 1950, Senior Air Staff Officer at AHQ Malta in 1952 and Director of Tactical and Air Transport Operations in 1956. He went on to be Senior Air Staff Officer at Headquarters Number.
11 Group in 1958, Air Officer Commanding Number.
13 Group in 1959 and Air Officer Commanding Number. 11 Group in 1961. After that he was made Senior Air Staff Officer at Headquarters Far East Air Force in 1962, Assistant Chief of the Air Staff (Intelligence) in 1964 and Deputy Chief of the Defence Staff (Intelligence) in 1965 before retiring in 1968. In retirement he was Director-General of Intelligence at the Ministry of Defence from 1968 to 1972.
Maguire was appointed Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in 1950 and Central Bank in 1958.
He was appointed Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath in 1966.
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February 1, 2001 (aged 88)