Awarded a permanent commission in the Royal Air Force in 1945. I was the OC #90 Squadron (Lancasters) at Tuddenham, England from October 1945 to February 1946 and posted to Royal Canadian Air Force Staff College, Armour Heights.  Briefly at the United Kingdom Air Liaison office in Ottawa interviewing Canadians for short service commissions in the Royal Air Force. Posted on exchange in Air Force Headquarters in charge of flying training until September 1948. After completing the Joint Service Staff College course, I served in Air Ministry and, while there, conducted a comparison between the RAF. and the Royal Swedish Air Force.From June 1952 to December 1954, on the Directing Staff at the RAF Staff College, Bracknell, with Gordon Stowell wrote a new War Manual for the RAF, A.P. 1300: The Principles of Air Warfare.
In January 1955, posted to Headquarters Far East Air Force and then promoted Group Captain as Commanding Officer, Royal Air Force, Changi in charge of the Far East Transport Wing, supply-dropping to troops fighting communists  in Malaya, using Valettas and Bristol Freighters.
Retired at my own request in November 1957 and emigrated to Canada. Joined the sales department of Canadair Ltd. in Montreal and was a director of sales form 1962 until 1969, then retired again to write full-time. Contributed regularly to the Globe’s Report on Business from 1974 to 1987 when ROB stopped taking freelance material. Articles also appeared in Executive magazine as well as Canadian dailies and, in the U.S.A., in The Freeman and Chronicles. Initiated the weekly column of the Canadian Federation of Independent Business, and edited the newsletters of the National Citizens’ Coalition from their inception in 1976 until 1987. In 1974 he and Winnett Boyd formed BMG Publishing Ltd. and in the next five years published eight books on Canadian politics (including two of Ken’s, Red Maple, and Green Maple), all of which sold more than 10,000. In 1990, wrote Keeping Canada Together, in 1995, His Pride, Our Fall, and in 1998, The Monstrous Trick. In between edited A Battle for Truth, about The Bomber Harris Trust’s suing the CBC and others for defamation in the 1992 “docudrama” The Valour and the Horror. In 2000, he is writing a novel.
Ruth Margaret Craig, of Barrie, Ontario and Ken were married on May 17, 1940. Ruth joined him in Yorkshire in May 1943 after surviving a 21 - day passage on the Atlantic in the 8,000 ton Baltrover; three ships of the convoy were sunk by U-boats. Peter was born in York in 1944, John in Bury St.Edmunds in  1946 and Martha in South Croydon in 1950. In 1957, Ruth returned to Canada; the rest, all English-born, immigrated

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