George Innes

Air Commodore George Innes CBE (26 November 1923 – 11 January 2015) was a Royal Air Force officer, former RAF Provost Marshal and head of RAF counter intelligence who helped expose a Soviet spy in 1968 and was security officer for the British nuclear tests conducted at Christmas Island. Early life Innes was born on 26 November 1923 at Musselburgh, East Lothian and educated at Crookston School in Scotland. Wartime service He was called up for service at the end of 1943 as Aircraftman 2nd class (service number 1570346) and became a student pilot, training at RAF Weeton and on the Commonwealth Air Training Plan in South Africa. Commissioned as pilot officer on 31 March 1945, Innes gained his pilot's aircrew brevet wings just as hostilities ended in Europe. On 1 October 1945 he was promoted flying officer. On discharge from wartime service he joined the City of Edinburgh police force, serving as a police constable until his application for a commission in the Provost and Security Branch of the Royal Air Force.