page_title: David Carnegie (RAF officer)
section_title: Wartime
hierarchical_section_title: David Carnegie (RAF officer) / Air Ministry / Wartime
caption_attribution_description: English: The Royal Company of Archers (The Queen's Bodyguard for Scotland) on the Esplanade outside Edinburgh Castle, shortly after providing a guard at an installation service for new knights of the Order of the Thistle
context_page_description: Air Vice Marshal David Vaughan Carnegie, CB, CBE, AFC was a senior Royal Air Force commander during the Second World War and the post-war decade.
context_section_description: With the outbreak of war in September 1939 he was immediately posted to Air Staff Fighter Command then in 1941 to Washington D.C. as Director of British Flying Training, a part of the RAF delegation. By war's end, 16,000 RAF aircrew had been trained in the United States. In September 1942 he was appointed Director of Flying Training at the Air Ministry. Late in the war he was appointed Acting Air Vice-Marshal then Air Commodore in 1946
caption: The Queen's Bodyguard for Scotland
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