Maurice Edwards joined the fledgling Royal Air Force Chaplaincy Service. He was granted the relative rank of squadron leader on 1 August 1919, the relative rank of wing commander on 6 August 1929, and the relative rank of group captain on 6 August 1934. On 10 April 1940, he granted the relative rank of air commodore and appointed Chaplain-in- Chief, the most senior chaplain of the Royal Air Force. From 1944 to 1947, he was based at the Rother Vale Collieries, after which he became rector of Acton Burnell cum Pitchford, a post he held until his retirement in 1953. He died
Royal Brunei Air Force and was equipped with a CN-235 plane and the Base Defence Squadron. In the same year, the Third Squadron received the Pilatus PC-7 Mark II training aircraft. The Thirty-Eight Squadron was established in 1999 and is equipped with the Mistral surface-to-air missile. Currently, the commander of the Royal Brunei Air Force is Brigadier General (U) Dato Seri Pahlawan Shahril Anwar bin Haji Ma’awiah. The Air Force is divided into 5 Wings: The Operation Wing consists of 4 Flying Squadrons and two addition units: The Air Regiment consists of 3 Squadrons and Technical Training School: The Logistics Wing consists of three