Andy,
Might help if people know what Bolitho was up to during the war:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hector_Bolitho
A Penguin in the Eyrie:An R.A.F. Diary 1939 to 1945, London:Hutchinson,1953, by Hector Bolitho, only mentions these appointments in the broadest of terms.
Col.