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
Digby Dent (Royal Navy officer, died 1761) Digby Dent (Royal Navy officer, died 1761) Commodore Digby Dent (c. 1700 - 5 June 1761) was a Royal Navy officer who served as Commander-in-Chief of the Jamaica Station. Born the son of Commodore Digby Dent (died 1737), Dent was promoted to post captain on 9 June 1738 on appointment to the command of the fifth-rate HMS "Kinsale". He transferred to the command of the third-rate HMS "Hampton Court" in 1739 and saw action in operations against Santiago de Cuba during the War of Jenkins' Ear. Promoted to commodore, he became Commander-in-Chief of the Jamaica Station in 1747 and Comptroller