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== Canada == The [[Royal Canadian Air Force]] (RCAF) used the rank until the 1968 unification of the [[Canadian Forces]], when army-type rank titles were adopted and an air marshal became a [[Lieutenant-General (Canada)|lieutenant-general]]. In official [[Canadian French]] usage, the rank title was {{lang|fr|maréchal de l'air}}.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.castlearchdale.net/id37.html |title=The RCAF |website=www.castlearchdale.net |access-date=22 May 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090603201652/http://www.castlearchdale.net/id37.html |archive-date=3 June 2009 |url-status=dead}}</ref> The [[Chief of the Air Staff (Canada)|Canadian Chief of the Air Staff]] ordinarily held the rank of air marshal. The following RCAF officers held the rank (dates in rank in parentheses): * [[Billy Bishop]] (1938 to 1944), rank retained on retirement * [[George Croil]] (c. 1940 to 1944), rank retained on retirement * [[Lloyd Samuel Breadner]] (1941 to 1945), subsequently promoted to air chief marshal * [[Gus Edwards (RCAF officer)|Gus Edwards]] (1942 to 1944), rank retained on retirement * [[Albert Cuffe]] (1942 to 1944), rank retained on retirement * [[Robert Leckie (RCAF officer)|Robert Leckie]] (1944 to 1947), rank retained on retirement * [[George Owen Johnson]] (to 1947), rank retained on retirement * [[Wilfred Curtis]] (c. 1947 to 1953), rank retained on retirement * [[Roy Slemon]] (c. 1953 to 1964), rank retained on retirement * [[Frank Robert Miller]] (1955 to 1961), subsequently promoted to air chief marshal * [[Hugh Lester Campbell|Hugh Campbell]] (1957 to 1962), rank retained on retirement * [[Clare Annis]] (1962 to 1966), rank retained on retirement<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.rcaf-arc.forces.gc.ca/CFAWC/Dedication_Ceremony_e.asp |title=Air Marshal Clare L. Annis, OBE, CD |access-date=20 December 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130211184650/http://www.rcaf-arc.forces.gc.ca/CFAWC/Dedication_Ceremony_e.asp |archive-date=11 February 2013}}</ref> * [[Clarence Dunlap]] (1962 to 1968), rank retained on retirement * [[William Ross MacBrien]] (1958 to 1968), rank retained on retirement * [[Edwin Reyno]] (1966 to 1968), later regraded to lieutenant-general
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