Harry Gill (RAF officer)

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Air-Vice Marshal Harry Gill CB OBE, known as Jimmy (30 October 1922 – 20 January 2008), was a British RAF officer and World War II fighter pilot who later became Director-General of Engineering and Supply Policy at the Ministry of Defence. Born in Chesterfield, England, he grew up in Newark-on-Trent and studied at Newark Technical College. He trained as a pilot in the United States and flew Hurricanes with 279 Squadron during the war, then Mosquito FB.VIs with 4 Squadron after the war. He won the King’s Silver Medal at Bisley in 1951. Gill was appointed an OBE for his services during the evacuation of Aden in 1967. He rose to air vice-marshal and, in 1976, became Director-General of Engineering and Supply Policy at the MoD. He was made a Companion of the Bath in 1978 and retired from the RAF in 1979. After retirement, he remained active with the RAF, serving as president of the Newark Branch of the Royal Air Forces Association and supporting the Air Training Corps, where he had trained as a youth with 47F Squadron in Grantham. His Mosquito TA122 is being restored and will be displayed at the de Havilland Museum in London Colney.