Should this not have started on 1 April ?
Knew a bumptious git who reached his ceiling as an Air Commodore, as when he was made an AVM, his superior officer did not feel he was worthy of further promotion to AM and had obviously been over promoted to AVM.
He was gutted, as his daddy had been an ACM, and sometime CinC of ****** Command, and who was so good at the job that he had his service specially extended so he could CinC the new ****** Command when it was formed, having amalgamated with another Command....
'Boy' missed out on being a real 'Sir' with a gong, or two...
It really put his nose out of joint..
Spending his retirement tending his roses..