Editing Lloyd Samuel Breadner (section)

==Command==
He was commissioned promoted to [[Squadron Leader]] in 1920 and transferred to the [[Royal Canadian Air Force]] (RCAF) on its formation in 1924. He became Controller of Civil Aviation in 1922, and later commanded [[CFB Borden|Camp Borden]] from January 15, 1924, to September 23, 1925. He was promoted to [[Wing Commander (rank)|Wing Commander]] on April 1, 1924. After attending [[RAF Staff College, Andover|RAF Staff College]], he was the [[Commander of the Royal Canadian Air Force|Director of the RCAF]] from February 15, 1928, to April 29, 1932.  From 1932 until 1935 he commanded [[CFB Trenton|Trenton]] and then attended the [[Imperial Defence College]]. He was promoted to [[Group Captain]] on February 1, 1936, and to [[Air Commodore]] on August 4, 1938.

[[File:Admiral of the Fleet Earl Mountbatten of Burma A18826.jpg|thumb|Breadner (fifth from left) at the Quebec Conference of 1943.]]
He became [[Commander of the Royal Canadian Air Force|Chief of Air Staff]] on May 29, 1940, and having been promoted to [[Air Marshal]] on November 19, 1941, became [[Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief]] [[RCAF Overseas]] in January 1944.  Breadner was promoted on his retirement on November 25, 1945, to [[Air Chief Marshal]], the first Canadian to hold this rank.

On November 30, 1944, while he was Chief of Air Staff, his son, Flying Officer Donald Lloyd Breadner, was killed after an air gunnery exercise, while flying a de Havilland Mosquito from [[RCAF Station Debert]], in Nova Scotia. He was the only son of Breadner and his wife, Mary Evelyn. They also had three daughters.<ref>"Donald Lloyd Breadner," Canadian Virtual War Memorial, http://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/collections/virtualmem/Detail/2687294?DONALD%20LLOYD%20BREADNER</ref>