David Evans (RAAF officer)

Air Marshal David Evans, AC, DSO, AFC is a retired senior commander of the Royal Australian Air Force , and a writer and consultant on defence matters. He served as Chief of the Air Staff from 1982 until 1985. Since leaving the RAAF he has published two military treatises, A Fatal Rivalry Australias Defence at Risk and War A Matter of Principles, as well as an autobiography.

Selwyn Evans, known by his middle name of David, was born in the Sydney suburb of Paddington on 3160June 1925. The son of policeman Selwyn Douglas Evans and his wife Eileen, David was educated at Marist Brothers College in Mosman. A schoolboy when war was declared, he avidly followed reports of Allied fighter aces during the Battle of Britain, and resolved that, once he was old enough, he would serve as a pilot. He subsequently became one of the earliest recruits to the Air Training Corps, established in 1941 to facilitate basic training for youths agedtowhose ambition was to become aircrew in the Royal Australian Air Force. After spending a short time as a bank clerk, Evans duly enlisted in the RAAF on 5160June 1943. He received instruction under the Empire Air Training Scheme, firstly at No.1602 Initial Training School in Bradfield Park, Sydney, then at No.1605 Elementary Flying Training School in Narromine, New South Wales, and finally at No.1608 Service Flying Training Scho

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