Air Vice Marshal Conway Walter Heath Pulford (18?? –March 10, 1942)

• Joined the Royal Navy
• 1914 December 18? Pilot, HMS Ark Royal
• 1915 March 6 promoted Flight Luitenant
• 1915 Staff, Aliki Seaplane Base, Imbros.
• 1916 June 30 promoted Flight Commander
• Acting Squadron Commaner
• 1917 December 31 Squadron Commander
• 1919 April 1 Flight Commander/Deputy OC, No 210 Squadron
• 1919 August 1 Awarded Permanent Commission as a Major
• 1919 Transferred to the Royal Air Force (RAF)
• 1919 April 1 promoted Squadron Leader.
• 1920 January 22 Removed from the Navy Lists on being awarded Permanent Commission in RAF.
• 1920 April 1 Officer Commanding, No 210 Sqn. (Cuckoo – Gosport)
• 1920 September 28 Flight Commander/Deputy OC, No 210 Squadron
• 1921 October 1 Squadron Commander, RAF Base, Gosport
• 1922 April 2 Attended RAF Staff College.
• 1923 April Staff, Directorate of Training and Staff Duties.
• 1923 August–September Staff, Directorate of Training.
• 1925 July 1 promoted Wing Commander
• 1925 August 17 Supernumerary, HQ Coastal Area.
• 1925 November 6 Officer Commanding, RAF Cape Flight.
• 1926 He led the RAF Cape Flight of four Fairey IIIDs in a record breaking flight from Cairo to Cape Town, for which he was awarded the AFC.
• 1926 September 1 Officer Commanding - Flying, HMS Furious.
• 1928 October 16 Supernumerary, RAF Depot.
• 1929 January 14 Attended Imperial Defence College.
• 1929 December 15 Officer Commanding, No 7 Sqn.
• 1931 April 9 Officer Commanding, RAF Bircham Newton.
• 1932 July 1 promoted Group Captain
• 1932 November 4 Officer Commanding, RAF Heliopolis.
• 1934 October 1 Officer Commanding, Air Armament School.
• 1936 July 1 promoted Air Commodore
• 1936 September 14 Air Officer Commanding, No 26 (Training) Group.
• 1938 August 15 Director of Volunteer Reserve Expansion
• 1939 April 1 Air Vice Marshal
• 1939 August 31 Air Officer A?, HQ Reserve Command
• 1941 March 6 Air Officer Commanding, RAF Far East Command .

In 1941 he attempted to build up the RAF in the Far East to support all the forces under the Far East Command. But before the Japanese attacked on December 8 1941 the Far East was given a low prioritory so little was done. To bolster his very small staff now that the war had started, Air Vice Marshal Paul Maltby arrived and undertook duties as his deputy. Pulford was authorised to evacuate himself on February 5 1942, ten days later Pulford and his naval counterpart, Rear Admiral Spooner, where amongst the last to leave. Their motor boat was hit and forced to run aground on a malaria ridden island in the Juju group. The survivors managed to hold out for two months before being forced to surrender to the Japanese, but the Air Vice Marshal and Rear Admiral had both died of exhaustion and malaria. When Pulin did not arrive in Jave, Maltby took over command of RAF Far East Command, but was captured and spent the rest of the war as a Prisoner of War of the Japanese.