Air officer and general officer in the Royal Navy and Army respectively. Specifically while the Army uses General Officer Commanding (GOC), the Air Force uses Air Officer Commanding (AOC) to designate the senior officer in a formation. Note, however, that in the British Armed Forces, while an air commodore is an air officer, his Royal Navy equivalent (commodore) is not considered a flag officer, nor is his British Army or Royal Marines equivalent (brigadier) considered a general officer. In 1919 when the RAF introduced its own air officer ranks, the preceding RAF and equivalent army rank was brigadier-general, which was a general
William Kerr (Royal Navy officer) William Kerr (Royal Navy officer) Commodore The Hon. William Kerr was a Royal Navy officer who served as Commander-in-Chief of the Jamaica Station. Born a younger son of the Earl of Lothian, Kerr was promoted to post captain on 14 May 1690 on appointment to the command of the fourth-rate HMS "Deptford". He transferred to the command of the fourth-rate HMS "Burlington" in 1696, of the third-rate HMS "Lenox" later the same year and of the third-rate HMS "Eagle" in 1700. He went on to receive the command the third-rate HMS "Revenge" in 1702. Promoted to Commodore, Kerr became Commander-in-Chief