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Bostock was chief of staff of the Allied air forces in the Southwest Pacific under Brett. The command arrangements proved cumbersome and Kenney tried to improve matters by having Bostock assigned as commander of a newly-created RAAF Command, with operational control of air forces operating in Australia (except Queensland) and the Netherlands East Indies. This arrangement was little better and was marked by poor relations and Bostock and the chief of the Air Staff, Sir George Jones. However, it remained unchanged throughout the war.
Bostock was regarded as a highly intelligent officer, and Kenney said of him that he "looked gruff and tough . . . but he impressed me as being honest and I believed that, if he would work for me at all, he would be loyal to me." Postwar he became a special aviation correspondent to the Melbourne Herald, writing several articles scathing in their criticism of the wartime command arrangement. He was elected to the House of Representatives in 1949 and served nine years.
| 1892-2-5
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Born at Sydney |
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| 1914-11-23
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Private |
Enlists in 1 Australian Imperial
Force |
| 1916-4 |
Sergeant
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Anzac Mounted Division |
| 1917-2-18 |
Second lieutenant
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Commissioned in Royal Flying
Corps Special Reserve |
| 1917-8 |
48 Squadron, France |
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| 1919-10-22 |
Retires |
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| 1921-9-14 |
Flying officer |
Recalled to active duty in Royal
Australian Air Force and assigned to 1 Flying Training School |
| 1926 |
Royal Air Force Staff College,
Andover, England |
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| 1929-12 |
Squadron leader |
Director of training, RAAF |
| 1931-11 |
Commander, 3 Squadron |
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| 1934 |
Wing commander |
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| 1936 |
Exchanged to England |
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| 1938 |
Director, Operations and
Intelligence |
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| 1938-9 |
Group captain |
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| 1939-9 |
Deputy chief of the Air Staff |
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| 1940-6 |
Air commodore |
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| 1941-10-1 |
Air vice marshal |
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| 1942-5-2 |
Chief of staff, Allied Air Forces, Southwest Pacific Area |
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| 1942 |
Commander, RAAF Command |
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| 1946-4-19 |
Retires |
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| 1949 |
Elected a Member of the House of
Representatives |
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| 1968-4-28 |
Dies at Benalla |
References
Australian Dictionary of Biography Online (accessed 2008-3-17)
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