Medal Bar of 13, Air Chief Marshal Sir Edgar Rainey Ludlow-Hewitt

Edgar Rainey Ludlow-Hewitt served in the Royal Flying Corps during the First World War. He became Air Officer Commanding in both Iraq and India in the 1930s.

In 1937 Ludlow-Hewitt was appointed Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief to Bomber Command and oversaw its rapid expansion in the years leading up to the outbreak of war in 1939. In 1940 he was replaced at Bomber Command by the then Air Marshal Sir Charles Portal and became Inspector-General of the RAF, a post he held until his retirement in 1945. His medals are in order Distinguished Service Order, Military Cross, 1914-1915 Star, War Medal 1914-1918, Victory Medal, Africa Star, France and Germany Star, Defence Medal, War Medal 1939-1945, Silver Jubilee Medal 1935, Coronation Medal 1937, Legion d'Honneur and King Feisal's War Medal (Iraq).