Leslie William Cannon

Air Vice Marshal Leslie William Cannon, CB, CBE (9 April 1904 – 27 January 1986) was a senior Royal Air Force officer. He served as Commander-in-Chief of the Royal Pakistan Air Force between 1952 and 1955.

Military career

Cannon enlisted in the RAF in the second entry of aircraft apprentices in 1922, was commissioned as a pilot.

From 1948 until late 1949, Cannon was Assistant Commandant and then Commandant of the RAF Staff College, Andover.

He served as OC 5 Sqn and 60 Sqn on the NWF of India in the 1930s. Eventually attaining the rank of Air Vice-Marshal (the first apprentice to achieve air rank), he served as Commander in Chief of the Royal Pakistan Air Force from 1952 to 1955.

References

• PAF s' Chief of Air Staffs
• Air of Authority - A History of RAF Organisation - Air Vice Marshal L W Cannon

Military offices
Preceded by P E Maitland	Air Officer Commanding No. 2 Group (RAF) 18 March 1946 – 3 June 1946	Succeeded by A L Paxton
Preceded by Richard Atcherley	Commander-in-Chief, Royal Pakistan Air Force 1951 – 1955	Succeeded by Arthur McDonald